Example Sentences

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Car dealers noted that fewer people were shelling out for electric vehicles after federal tax subsidies expired.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

The Russians, who for a month had been shelling key energy lines feeding the plant, were shelling again, he was told.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

In California, the priciest market, shoppers were shelling out an average of $7.37 for a dozen Grade A large eggs, roughly three times the cost from a year earlier.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023

Those 4000-plus buyers thought they were shelling out for a squeaky-clean sedan, not a nitrogen-oxide spewing machine.

From Time • Sep. 22, 2015

There had never been an air raid in Port Harcourt and it made no sense that there would be one now, when Port Harcourt was about to fall and the vandals were shelling close by.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie