Example Sentences

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“Is someone helping you?” asked Judge Gary Tanaka at a Dec. 17 hearing in his Torrance courtroom where she had been appearing with such regularity that the clerk knows her by first name.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

Gareth Richards had been appearing at the Fringe since 2010 and was due to perform another show this year.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2023

With just 16 days to prepare a major Puccini part for an important new production, Mr. Alagna, who had been appearing in “Pagliacci” at the Met, agreed to take it on.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2016

It all made for “great television,” little of which had been appearing at that time on ABC.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2015

Then there was Myrna, who had been appearing to him in a series of dreams that was taking the form of the old Batman serials that he had seen at the Prytania as a child.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole