Example Sentences

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I am wiping a tear from my eye.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2010

A few hours ago, some well-fed butt was straining away on this toilet seat, and now here I am wiping up after it.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

I am wiping my forehead with the hem of my shirt, standing on a branch, when I hear the sound.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Philipp was my betrothed, and he kissed me—" She wipes her mouth and continues, laughing: "Here I am wiping my mouth even now.

From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman

I am wiping out the shame of the latter one.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael