Example Sentences

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All this week, on my podcast, The Gist, I am examining where comedy is and where it’s going.

From Slate

Now comparing these instances together, we shall have no difficulty in determining the principle of this apparent variation in the application of the term which I am examining.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

I am not playing with Christian Science and its founder, I am examining them; and I am doing it because of the interest I feel in the inquiry.

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark

I am examining, by the king's order, the physiognomy of the city.

From Chicot the Jester by Dumas père, Alexandre

So great is her assurance that she comes right into my study, to my work table, and disputes my ownership of the nests whose occupants I am examining.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander