Example Sentences

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Even if my mother had been crowning with me she would not have been allowed in.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2018

The ancient rites that opened the 18th Winter Games were, in fact, apt for an Olympiad that some had been crowning the Attitude Games.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thumbeline had been crowning Florrie with a wreath of flowers.

From Lore of Proserpine by Hewlett, Maurice Henry