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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being for once in the mood to get things right, Phoebe had brought home from the library a book about dragonflies.
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Indeed, some of our dragonflies regularly migrate across the North Sea.
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No bird of prey hovered overhead, not even the dragonflies disturbed the oily surface of the pond.
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That second child may have spent her preschool years catching and studying dragonflies or building castles out of blocks.
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The earliest so far discovered are dragonflies.
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There were fireflies and dragonflies and huge blackflies with electric wings.
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They scarcely resemble the order of dragonflies after which they were named.