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33 total sentences available.
In the morning of the 5th of February of 2022, on my way to the pizzeria and cafe, I saw a good-looking man in black clothing and black baseball cap, as he was vaping near the pub and carrying a box of cups of coffee. At the cafe, a strong, thickset man in black entered to get his coffee.
Source: tatoeba (10660948)
In the morning of the 21st of February of 2022, on my way to the pizzeria, I saw a thickset bearded man in black, as he pumped a tire of his car at the gas station. At the cafe, there were brown men. I drank a cold pistachio latte using oat milk.
Source: tatoeba (10684972)
In the morning of the 5th of March of 2022, I ate at the pizzeria and drank iced black tea at the cafe, where Rob with now long brown hair, with a black sweater and orange worker pants, entered to greet me and Don, sitting at separate tables. A brown man in a white T-shirt and sleeveless black vest came to get coffee, his muscular arms writhing. I spent a minute in the woods. As I approached my house, I waved to Derek my Filipino neighbour in a green tracksuit, his mesomorphic silhouette showing. In the sunny afternoon, going back to the pizzeria, I saw, on the other side of the main road, a whole Jewish family with children, all wearing Sabbath synagogue attire. I waved to Gurpreet the Sikh at the gasoline station. At the pizzeria's front, a thickset bicyclist in black parked and locked his bicycle. I ate a pizza slice and drank a cold diet cola. Northbound, homebound, I could see the snowcapped mountains. Near my home, I waved to my Fijian multiracial neighbours, the grandson Darius and his grandmother Moli, whose name meant "orange" in Fijian.
Source: tatoeba (10704558)
Tom is a thickset man.
Source: tatoeba (10793414)
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