Example Sentences

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“Too generous, and the plan will be dead in the water. Too weak, and the left will excoriate her. It's not an enviable position to be in.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2017

Sometimes the cord breaks, and if the owner has not ceased to care about his personal appearance he will excoriate the broken ends, and splice them with grass fibre until they reunite.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil