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Examples
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The population of this mountain town of 50,000 is still mostly indigenous, Ixil speaking, with many living in dirt-floor poverty.
Raging Drug War Boosts Controversial Ex-General Nicholas Casey 2011
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She is off to Africa to assist George Obama and help him move to a brick home instead of the dirt-floor and tin-roofed place he has now.
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Known without exaggeration as “the Stagecoach King,” the Kentucky-born Holladay had immigrated to Missouri as a teenager and variously operated a tavern, a drugstore, and a dirt-floor hotel before entering the transportation business.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Curtis opens the door and pulls me into the dirt-floor shack—I look around and step back out.
sweet, hereafter ANGELA JOHNSON 2010
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Curtis opens the door and pulls me into the dirt-floor shack—I look around and step back out.
sweet, hereafter ANGELA JOHNSON 2010
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Known without exaggeration as “the Stagecoach King,” the Kentucky-born Holladay had immigrated to Missouri as a teenager and variously operated a tavern, a drugstore, and a dirt-floor hotel before entering the transportation business.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Johnson fills the space between purple passages by dropping his sentence subjects, leaving bursts of adjectives to stand alone, and generally doing a spot-on impersonation of Annie Proulx: She waited in a dirt-floor café.
A Bright Shining Lie 2007
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We met our host family, a husband and wife and their six daughters, and settled into the thatched-roof, dirt-floor cabana that housed our nine hammocks.
Ruins in the rain forest: An excursion to La Selva Lacandona 2007
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Johnson fills the space between purple passages by dropping his sentence subjects, leaving bursts of adjectives to stand alone, and generally doing a spot-on impersonation of Annie Proulx: She waited in a dirt-floor café.
A Bright Shining Lie 2007
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We met our host family, a husband and wife and their six daughters, and settled into the thatched-roof, dirt-floor cabana that housed our nine hammocks.
Ruins in the rain forest: An excursion to La Selva Lacandona 2007
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