Examples
- On the face of it, he showed his mettle in the boxing ring.
- Turning blue, the chicken was lodged in his mouth.
- Kathy went to the seminar with Jenny, but she was talking to her friend who makes a lot of money on the phone.
- A worm began to eat one of my tomatoes, but I smashed it green and squishy anyway.
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Famous quotes containing the word examples:
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people’s attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
—André Breton (1896–1966)