Example Sentences

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She added: “Maybe, just maybe, I’m getting under his skin a little bit because I am climbing in the polls.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 10, 2015

"Maybe, just maybe, I'm getting under his skin a little bit because I am climbing in the polls," she said.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2015

If I am hiking up a familiar path near my house in Turin and I think, “I am climbing a hill in Italy,” there is a brief whiff of foreign glamour.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2014

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2013

At last, intoxicated by these feelings, he thought to himself—I am climbing after her, climbing to the highest pinnacle of happiness.

From Absalom's Hair by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne