Example Sentences

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So long as it continues to maintain or climb, and I feel like I am balancing it in a way that I won’t look back later in life with major regrets, then I will continue.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2022

"In making this determination, I am balancing the government's ongoing commitment to strong border protection policies with appropriate compassion in circumstances involving children in detention," Minister for Immigration Alex Hawke said on Tuesday.

From Reuters • Jun. 15, 2021

I think right now, like many folks in America, I am balancing a lot of different feelings.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2017

But," she continued as the applause died down, "I am balancing that confidence with a quotation from Ephesians, 'Let your moderation be known unto all men.'

From Time Magazine Archive

I don't want particularly to dwell upon things that are disagreeable for others to read, but I cannot leave them out of my story and get the right proportions of the forces I am balancing.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)