Example Sentences

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“If you have two attorneys who can fight all day in a courtroom and then go out afterwards, that’s a sign of a well-running courthouse.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2021

“You need to know what the fixed, well-running thing should look like.”

From Time • Jul. 28, 2014

There might,—he didn't know—be as good wives among the Shell maidens as among the well-running girls of the hills.

From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Waterloo, Stanley