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Example sentences for: raced

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The media called it an "impressive" decline (the New York Times ), and President Clinton and local police raced to take credit for their creative and diligent law-enforcement efforts.
Physicians have often raced to put pen to paper and reveal the signs and symptoms of their more illustrious deceased patients.
This chapel was said to have been built in the memory of a young man who, in 1753, raced his horse down Calle Cristo, was unable to stop the animal in time, and fell over the wall to his death.
Of course, Wednesday the Nasdaq raced past 3000 , and Thursday it stayed comfortably above it.
In 1884 he qualified as a physician, and he never completely gave up medicine as his short life raced to a close.