Example Sentences

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America will be robbing Peter to pay Paul.

From US News • Mar. 1, 2016

"But you will be robbing the garden of its chief ornament," cried Gabrielle.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

“Certainly, but I’m afraid it will be robbing you.”

From Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp by Chapman, Allen