Example Sentences

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Karen had been celebrating her 26th birthday with a night out in Luton, Bedfordshire, in 1993, when she decided to get a taxi home.

From BBC • May 18, 2024

“This is a very close-knit family that had been celebrating the anticipation of a new life when tragedy struck.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2024

They had been celebrating Simchat Torah, a festive Jewish holiday that marks the conclusion of the annual reading of the Torah.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

Official explanations that they had been celebrating a birthday did little to quell a speculative frenzy about their activities.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Finally, he congratulated them upon this marvellous, new-found freedom which the Carthaginian alliance had brought, and which they had been celebrating so earnestly.

From The Lion's Brood by Osborne, Duffield