One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on And the swamp water overflowed. Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist Doctor Jackson was the first to go.
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6 total sentences available.
One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on And the swamp water overflowed. Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist Doctor Jackson was the first to go.
Source: wiktionary
The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement.
Source: wiktionary
They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.
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The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.
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