Example Sentences

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Even on Sunday morning, radio news was reporting that the City was specifying that meters would need to be fed on Monday.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2010

In choosing the color of the gown to be snow-white instead of cream color, the artist knew what he was specifying.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

I was specifying the consequences of crime to the prisoners at the bar; but I forbear.

From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline