Example Sentences

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City officials and tourism leaders worry that car burglaries are marring San Francisco’s reputation as a travel destination.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2021

Many businesses and park advocacy groups have rallied behind the city’s efforts because they contend that vendors are marring the tranquillity of some of the city’s most popular gathering spots.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2010

Please produce your authority and let us arrive at a decision, for you see yourself that you are marring the game.'

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark

It can lead us away from surroundings whose beauty is dimmed to us by the mist of familiarity, or whose ignoble ugliness and sordid claims are marring the perfection of our development. 

From Intentions by Wilde, Oscar

And let me further point out," he said, "what a simple-minded notion it is to beg a guide of the very man whose designs we are marring.

From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham