Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“Whether I am succeeding or not, I’m actually trying to unwrite an Americanness,” Yuknavitch says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2022

She has talked down to me as if I’m a child, even though I own my own home and am succeeding in my career.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2017

He said, I am succeeding, look at me.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

If I am succeeding at one, I am inevitably failing at the other.

From Time • Jun. 9, 2014

I am succeeding better with my 'Immortality' paper.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe