Example Sentences

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Thanks to being back on daylight time, I am finishing my daily to-do list long before sunset.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2024

Consequently, I am very careful to call for a refill as soon as I am finishing a prescription, because I need to take the pills at that very first tingle.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

"I am finishing at the club at 4 am and waiting until 5 or 6 am in the morning to get a taxi," she explained.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2021

I just began the Karl Ove Knausgaard book on Edvard Munch, and I am finishing “The Big Oyster,” a history of New York couched in a history of oysters.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020

As I am finishing up, Izzie walks in with his clothes all caked with mud.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar