Example Sentences

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By next year, city statistics show, many of the remaining nine will have scattered, too.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2014

Meanwhile, the passengers will have scattered to the winds, Verna among them.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2011