Example Sentences

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One day I was on the porch with the two younger kids, who were doodling with crayons, when I wrote down the word “pain.”

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2013

By the time their first annual meeting droned to an end in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, they were doodling, yawning and fanning themselves with the agenda.

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