Example Sentences

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On a recent January morning, student taste testers were sampling Gjersand’s latest creations.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

We tasted apples like we were sampling the finest wines, comparing and contrasting sweetness, tartness, crispness, noticing hints of vanilla — we were ridiculous, thoroughly enjoying ourselves as we sampled everything they had to offer.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022

Several stars give Johnson props here, but none is as helpful as RZA, who fleshes out the narrative of how Johnson turned into a litigation machine once he realized how many artists were sampling him.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

But while his parents were sampling the same street food in Taiwan in the ’50s, they didn’t meet until they were graduate students in Florida in the late ’60s.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

One night we were sampling the herring when I heard Janina say, “Hello.”

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli