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How to use the word a-okay in a Sentence?

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It's okay to break my feelings, it's okay to say no, but what is not okay is to play with my feelings; for that's where trust shatters and scars grow.

Christen Kuikoua

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1 month ago

You will never make 20 in a row if you are not okay to miss 200 hundred. Success often requires learning from setbacks, and understanding that each miss brings you closer to the perfect score.

Christen Kuikoua

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1 month ago

It's okay to be alone, but not okay to die alone

Christen Kuikoua

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2 months ago

As a high schooler, I learned that sometimes it's okay for your enemies to be many and your equals to be none. By adopting this mindset, their criticisms become insignificant

Christen Kuikoua

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2 months ago

After the cord was broken, our staff got him [mike] out of the water immediately, and asked him if he was okay, he [Mike] said he felt bruised. So we took him to the hospital.

Nithit Intim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see this adorably frantic, upset girl – she’s tough, let’s not ruin her street cred – but she was crying, i think I came up to her and was like, ‘ Are you okay ? ’.

London Hollie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Dude, it’s okay. I came to see you, we hung out on the couch and talked about absolutely everything and supported each other and just had a lovely time. That was really memorable for me, and that really meant a lot.

London Hollie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At whose expense? That’s the biggest issue right now, at whose expense are we going to do things to make sure it’s okay?

Alan Freed/Reuters Stewart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once we realized it was very old, we felt that it was okay to open up the letter.

Finlay Glen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There will never be a return to normal. This event has changed what that will feel like for us forever. But that’s okay, if there’s one thing I know and love about Spartans is that in times of need we come together.

Jo Kovach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Companies want you to want them — not just for you to take the job because you have to, it’s okay to say you’d like a job sooner rather than later. But be careful not to appear desperate.

Marlo Lyons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any police sergeant watching that video, their first thought is, ‘ My God, where was the supervision and why did they think this was okay, ’.

Greg Umbach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You need to think about what needs to live in the mudroom — for each person in your household, what do they actually need to get in and out of the door in the morning, or at the end of the day, that’s going to make the space function for you all? and then you can work backwards and figure out, ‘Okay, how do I want to contain this in the smartest way?’.

Joanna Teplin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we put everything together, we saw drops in brightness that were not caused by Quaoar, but that pointed to the presence of material in a circular orbit around it. The moment we saw that we said, ‘Okay, we are seeing a ring around Quaoar,’.

Bruno Morgado

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We went from celebrating – I have pictures of me with my family, happy, having dinner – and then that night, we’re texting, ‘Are you guys okay? Did you hear about this?,’.

Elizabeth Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was anxious about how it would behave, the wing could pivot back [to the traditional] 90 degrees to the fuselage to be able to land, and he found out that you’d have to do a very gentle, slow descent, but you’d get what you needed and it would be okay.

Christian Gelzer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I didn’t leave until I made sure everyone was okay.

Jay Withey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bar, are you okay ?

Barbara Bush

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Let's just get through the election. Okay. They haven't won yet.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I have been so busy campaigning. This happened. I was not in the office. One of our wonderful staffers, a couple of them, were actually exposed, and so far they're doing okay. We're monitoring them, and we want to make sure that everything's okay.

Kari Lake

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don’t condone violence, and I hope no one else condones violence, it’s never, ever okay to be a racist.

Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My legislation says there can be no more than eight bullets in a round, okay?

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To not feel valued, it isn't okay, and people just don't know how not okay things are. We are standing up for our patients and standing up for each other.

Brandy Navarro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let me just say, I think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago. People say this [ raid ] was unprecedented -- well, it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay, and how long is the government going to try to get that back ? They jawboned for a year, they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken, they went and got a subpoena, they were deceived on that they feel, and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around.

William Barr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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