Example Sentences

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“So if we are stewing and simmering on our way to the office, it’s not helping us, ultimately.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2021

“It seems like, as people are stewing on it and as time is passing, the intensity level is definitely increasing.”

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2021

It all speaks to a moment when many of us at home are stewing in our eccentricities and our alienation, hoping someone else out there feels the way we do.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2020

Apples are stewing gently on the stove, filling the room with unctuous aromatic promises.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2019

You do not know," I said to Signor Balbi, "what sort of fish are stewing in my kettle.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo