Sample Sentences for
pact
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    Thomas got to his feet anyway, determined to defend the pact he'd made.  (source)
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    It was also said that they had a pact with the devil, and that they kidnapped children and, taking them away to their mysterious camps, made them their slaves.  (source)
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    He'll also bring them game — he and I made a pact about this a year or so ago — and will probably not ask for compensation, but they should thank him with some kind of trade, like milk or medicine.  (source)
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    I was on the verge of blurting out the awful truth about the bus and the men in the night, but then I remembered the pact Stacey had made us all swear to when I had told him, Christopher-John, and Little Man about the caravan and I said instead, "No, ma'am," and began to churn again.  (source)
    pact = agreement
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    Let them form blocs and alliances and mutual assistance pacts and guarantees of neutrality.  (source)
    pacts = agreements between parties
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    There were rumors the Russians and the Germans had abandoned their pact and were at war with each other now, making Hitler fight the English and French and Americans in the west, and the Russians in the east.  (source)
    pact = agreement
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    Very late up the literary clock one named Locomotives and Trains, The Mystery of Sleep, Between Midnight and Dawn, The Witches' Sabbath, and Pacts With Demons.†  (source)
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    I wanted to answer her prayer—I was barely more than ten miles from the mountain—but I knew what unspoken pact I would be making as I walked through that door.  (source)
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    She tried not to panic, but that pot of boiling water, and the otherwise eerie quiet of the house, arranged itself in a crooked way in her mind, and very suddenly she was thinking of robberies, or suicide pacts, or kidnappings.†  (source)
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    And suddenly we'll look around and discover that all the old alliances are gone, dead and gone, except one, the Warsaw Pact.  (source)
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    I was named after Mary Magdalene, who was nearly killed from love: "So infected with deliria and in violation of the pacts of society, she fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her."†  (source)
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    So, we just made a pact that we wouldn't tell her unless we found out that Craig made it sound like "nothing big," and Sam was ready to forgive him.  (source)
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    He had always been a heavy, healthy boy, had played like other children, and fought as they did, made friends and enemies and secret pacts and grandiose plans.†  (source)
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