Kápuy na ug tinuúrun nímu kug prí sa sini, I’m sick of hearing you say it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Kinsay nagtuptup ug tupi nímu?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[16] Division differs only from analysis in that analysis follows the inherent divisions of a subject, as illustrated in the foregoing passage, while division arbitrarily separates the subject for convenience of treatment, as in the following none-too-logical example: For civil history, it is of three kinds; not unfitly to be compared with the three kinds of pictures or images.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Kinsay nagkural ug tunukung alambri sa misítas?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Hester Prynne, gazing steadfastly at the clergyman, felt a dreary influence come over her, but wherefore or whence she knew not, unless that he seemed so remote from her own sphere, and utterly beyond her reach.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ang sastri nagkatkat sa karsúnis nga usbunun, The tailor undid the seams of the pants to be altered.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ngánung sigíhan man ku nímu ug tan-aw?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Kazbich never used to tether him either—just the very horse for a robber!...
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

What that might be, I declare that I know not until this day.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

And it's that glorious, unspoiled green—the kind nature uses to make painters feel foolish.
— from The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

Musagábay kahà ka nákù ug tinuntuhan ku?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He remonstrated with Adele, no use; he offered to fight a duel with the perfidious Kestrike, no use; the thief was a coward.’
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

The men know nothing—will know nothing up to the moment we pull into Prairie."
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker