Example Sentences

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With each admission that followed, I exhaled with relief over speaking the secret that had been crushing me for so long.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2020

But Markey had been crushing opponents for a generation.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2013

“Put it there, Fats,” the girl who had been crushing the can said.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

It had been crushing for Regina to have to sign the authorization releasing the sixteen-year-old from the school.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The tax upon memory alone, to say nothing of the other faculties, had been crushing.

From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.