Example Sentences

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“I must confess that I am executing crazy ideas I have had in my mind for years but never have had the courage to realize,” he said earlier this year to the New York Times.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2021

I tell this story to underscore how hard this job is, how poorly I am executing it, how utterly I am at the mercy of a three-foot tyrant in sparkly tights.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2015

I in person am executing the order of His Majesty.

From The Boy Scouts In Russia by Furman, E. A.

I am executing an important and delicate mission for our government, and having already journeyed through the colonies to the northward, I must still travel through those of the south.

From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester