Tucked in example sentence

The black slaves who attended Front-de-Boeuf were stripped of their gorgeous apparel, and attired in jerkins and trowsers of coarse linen, their sleeves being tucked up above the elbow, like those of butchers when about to exercise their function in the slaughter-house.

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I then put him to bed, tucked him in, gave him a kiss on his forehead and said, "Goodnight, mate," and walked out of his bedroom.

She keeps the letters he writes to her tucked into the frame of her bedroom mirror, and reads them over and over again.

Understand, I was 14 years old, tucked away in myself, into myself, and I wasn't touched either, physically touched.

I wrote those same kinds of letters that my mother had written me for strangers, and tucked them all throughout the city, dozens and dozens of them.

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