Example Sentences

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When I write a poem, it may appear that I am commenting journalistically on the events of the day.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2021

I think you will get more out of the debate then the NYT article I am commenting on.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2016

These two facts have been revealed to me by the same manuscript which I am translating, and upon which I am commenting.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

These personal traits, though quite compatible with the portrait on which I am commenting, are not visible in it.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil