Example Sentences

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Both safe haven assets had been advancing for the past week as rising tensions in Ukraine sent investors seeking safety.

From Reuters • Feb. 23, 2022

The evidence supported Wilson’s contention that Brown had been advancing toward him.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 10, 2015

Pretentious and absurd as this may sound, I had been advancing the theory that I somehow found it easier to write fiction in a place with a view of mountains.

From Newsweek

Instead of being strung out in vulnerable "pursuit formation," Ridgway had been advancing carefully, compactly, on constant guard against surprise attacks and flank threats.

From Time Magazine Archive

The manager of the Court theatre bowed thrice, as if he had been advancing to the foot-lights to address the public; then he stood still and silent, awaiting the prince’s pleasure.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various