Example Sentences

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All involved agree that the walls had been bulging and cracking for years, but decades of complaints from the neighbors and requests for repairs from Afghan ambassadors had drawn no response from Kabul.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2021

The crowd, which had been bulging and riotous for Rae Sremmurd, has now calmed and more than half the audience had left by the time Musgraves came on.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2016