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Belinda shrieked when the manatee bumped against her even though she was swimming in a river, her first thought was shark.

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Maybe the spinach in her teeth cost Sylvia the job, maybe, though, her refusal to hold the elevator for our boss, Mrs. McQueen, sank her chances of working here.

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Daniel thoroughly vacuumed his car's interior, a single flake of cat dander would cause Elise, his date, to sneeze uncontrollably on the drive to the restaurant.

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Since Felicia missed four classes in a row, she is wholly unprepared for today's exam, which covers all the bones in the human body.

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CCSS.L.4.1F

Mr. Kellyman promised to puncture our soccer ball the next time it bounced into his yard moreover he threatened to loose his pit bull if we crossed the property line to retrieve it.

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CCSS.L.4.1F

Amber’s favorite animal is the shark the necklace of jagged great white teeth that adorns her neck is in sharp contrast to her pleasant personality and easy laugh.

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CCSS.L.4.1F

After taking an astronomy class, Michael became paranoid about ELEs, otherwise known as “extinction level events” now the thought of an asteroid striking the planet and wiping out all life keeps him from sleeping at night.

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Raquel was horrified to learn that her high school, as a result of county budget cuts, was canceling its band program, she loved banging on drums as stress relief.

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Elaine hates taking Fred, her teenage brother, out to eat, when Fred isn’t sticking straws up his nose, he is flirting with the waitress or shrieking that he has found a cockroach in his food.

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All of her life, Nyska listened to people joke about her thick glasses, thus she readily agreed to correct her vision with surgery and discard what friends have called her “bug eyes.”

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