Sample Sentences for
Brussels
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  • King Baudouin invited eighty Congolese leaders to Brussels to chart a course for independence.†  (source)
  • She'd hidden it in the back of the freezer in a jar, inside a box of Brussels sprouts.†  (source)
  • Only the brussels sprouts on their four-foot stalks looked graceful.†  (source)
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  • She's about to barf her Brussels sprouts!†  (source)
  • In any case, the victory by our troops at Mulhouse and the reports of the occupation of Brussels and Leuven should give us courage.†  (source)
  • Then before that we lived in Brussels.†  (source)
  • You'll be telling me to open the tunnel so that Mr. Train can deliver some mushy Brussels sprouts to the red bloody station next.†  (source)
  • A youth hostel in Brussels.†  (source)
  • When we go down to the formal dining room at six o'clock, I am stunned at the bounty: a ham in the middle of the table, roasted potatoes, brussels sprouts glistening with butter, a basket of rolls.†  (source)
  • I take a deep breath and can smell the food: turkey and stuffing, sweet potatoes, brussels sprouts, pumpkin pie.†  (source)
  • Thirty years after sailing away from a financial dead end and the remnants of a once-noble family in Japan, he found himself in the middle of America's Depression and on the move again, with eight kids and a wife this time, working his way down the California coast picking prunes, peaches, Brussels sprouts, sending his children into the orchards like any migrant worker's family, hoping their combined earnings would leave a little left over after everyone was fed and the cars gassed up for the next day's search for work.†  (source)
  • The international basis for this is the Salvage Convention of 1910 (Brussels), which codified the transnational nature of admiralty and salvage law.†  (source)
  • They tiptoed from room to room, afraid to speak above a whisper and gazing with a kind of awe at the unbelievable luxury, at the beds with their feather mattresses, the looking-glasses, the horsehair sofa, the Brussels carpet, the lithograph of Queen Victoria over the drawing-room mantelpiece.†  (source)
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