Example Sentences

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Between 2012 and 2020, a Dyson spokesperson reckoned, hand dryers will have sucked $873m out of paper towel revenues.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2019

“The bees will have sucked the purple straws dry.”

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018