Example Sentences

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Last week’s games from PNC Park were refreshing and easy to follow the action.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2023

The anise-y, licorice-forward notes were refreshing and livening.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2023

A lot of people were refreshing Twitter on Monday to see if the manager would survive.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2022

For the fellow activists in the Blue Room, the new tone and style were refreshing.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2014

The perfect order in which her books and papers were arranged, and the exquisite neatness of the apartments, were refreshing to behold.

From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady