At our family's holiday gathering, the Urn of Fate sits on the table, and everyone takes turns drawing a box in hopes of finding one that contains a present.

We got lost for hours in the carnival's halls of mirrors, laughing and comparing our distorted reflections.

Many shipping companies reroute their vessels to avoid congestion in the Strait of Malacca during peak seasons.

The telescope can resolve details down to three seconds of arc under ideal conditions.

After signing the new contract, she finally managed to dig out of a hole the small bakery had been sliding into for months.

I was all kinds of nervous before the interview.

When teaching middle school math, I emphasize the importance of understanding the orders of operations to avoid calculation errors.

When negotiations stalled, the mother of chapel stepped in to lead talks with management.

Every Thanksgiving our family pulls out Game of Life and spends hours laughing over unlikely career choices and bizarre twists of fate.

When the bully cornered him, he feared the bully would beat the stuffing out of him.