Example Sentences

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Here’s the unusual part: As they embraced, they realized their beards were rubbing up against the other.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2023

By the mid-1600s, Europeans were rubbing palm oil on their own skin, too.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2021

Hefele held his head in disbelief but he and the rest of the people in the stadium were rubbing their eyes in wonder six minutes later when Izzy Brown missed an even clearer opportunity.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2017

His shoulder blades, he says, felt like they were rubbing together across his back.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2016

I was saying that seven o’clock would be a reasonable time to— 9TH JUROR: The reason I asked about that was because you were rubbing your nose like .

From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose