I put Helen's hand under the cool water and formed the word w-a-t-e-r in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

He started writing in eighteen seventy-six, but put the story away after about two years of work.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

In eighteen sixty-one, the American Civil War put an end to steamboat traffic on the Mississippi.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

It put the Confederate states in the position of fighting for slavery -- even though most of the soldiers were too poor to own slaves.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The play was in seventeen eighty-seven, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.

VOA: special.2011.05.22

His name was put before the Republican nominating convention in eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

He put it in his English language dictionary in eighteen-oh-six.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

When a baby is put face down in a bed, it begins to re-breathe carbon dioxide, which is toxic.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

"It did not adequately put in place a set of checks and balances on risk-taking that had systemic consequences."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Their aim is to work out disagreements that newspapers here say have put U.S.-Israeli relations at their worst in years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

the retention bonuses were put in place at the beginning of 2008, before AIG received any bail-out money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

The president is abandoning a Bush Administration plan to put anti-missile installations in Poland and the Czech Republic.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"In fact,the most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe,would be to further inflame anti-American opinion and to put our troops in greater danger,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.13

"We could succeed in Afghanistan and if the Pakistani government does not put its own house in order they could fail in their counter-insurgency anyway,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15