Example Sentences

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“When ‘Boyfriend’ came about, it was one of those things that had been boiling, bubbling up in me that felt like something I needed to address and express.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

She said she had been boiling tap water before drinking it on Wednesday, in case the city’s waterworks had been infused with floodwater.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023

Even before the service disruption, the city’s 150,000 residents had been boiling their drinking water for the past month because officials said it could cause digestive problems.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022

There was a lot of frustration that had been boiling up within me, so I went for broke.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2011

I took a chance to see if Syl could prove something that had been boiling up in me when the cap’n had offered the Dee-troit sheriff all that money to come with us.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis