Example Sentences

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The count of what is known as "excess deaths" had been beginning to rise before 2020 and there are other factors at play too, such as an ageing population.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2022

Now when they saw the fires on the shore where French Village had been beginning to die down they were stumbling painfully and crazily down to the water.

From The Shepherd of the North by Maher, Richard Aumerle

It seemed, too, to set him right in his own eyes, to sweep away a creeping feeling that had been beginning to trouble him.

From The Call of the Blood by Lowell, Orson

She feared she had been beginning to settle down content with their pleasant life, forgetting higher things.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

They had been beginning to hate each other.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John