Practice Using Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs

“He simply sat down on the ledge and forgot everything _____ the marvelous mystery.”— Lawrence Sargent Hall

"I live in the Oakland Hills in a tiny house on a street so windy you can’t drive more than ten miles per hour. I rented it because the _____ said this: 'Small house in the trees with a garden and a fireplace. Dogs welcome, of course.'"— Pam Houston

"Francis wondered what _____  a psychiatrist would have for him."— John Cheever

"He sat down and leaned forward, pulling the chair's rear legs into the _____ so that the waitress could get by."— Stanley Elkins

"The stewardess was moving down the _____ , like a trained nurse taking temperatures in a hospital ward, to see that they were all properly strapped in for the take-off."— Martha Gellhorn

"Mrs. Parmenter laughed at his _____ to their summer at Mrs. Sterrett's, in Rome, and gave him her coat to hold."— Willa Cather

"In the long years between, she had fashioned many fine dresses—gowned gay girls for their conquests and robed fair brides for the _____ ."— Mary Lerner

"The barn was bigger than a church, and the fall's fresh hay _____ were stacked to the roof in the side mows."— John Updike

"Without the shelter of those trees, there is a great exposure—back yards, clotheslines, woodpiles, patchy sheds and barns and privies—all _____ , exposed, provisional looking."— Alice Munro

"Nancy held the cup to her mouth and _____ into the cup."— William Faulkner