Example Sentences

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“Protests and riots were the normal news, banks had been boarding up their windows, and emergency alerts were prompting people to stay indoors after curfew,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2022

When Mindy Rhodes and John Braxton were house-hunting six years ago, they wanted a quiet, old house with enough acreage for her horse, Spike, whom she had been boarding.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2021

Graves’ love of horses was kindled when she was a toddler and her parents traded in a washing machine and a tumble-dryer for the two ponies they had been boarding for a family friend.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2020

We hobbled into the village of Nizankowice near midnight, and I knocked on the door of Mrs. Nowak, the Catholic woman who had been boarding Max during the week while he worked with Dr. Schillinger.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

They had been boarding for some time in Dorchester, in the family of Mr. Barnard; where she received, as she says, "the greatest kindness and affection,"—and she felt the need of it.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.