Example Sentences

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The preacher, they said, had been curing the ill through prayer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

She was walking between her kitchen and her smokehouse, where she had been curing king and dog salmon.

From Washington Post

But the old woman solved this problem with a deer hide that had been curing for some seasons on the wall behind the house.

From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison

Choice timber he had been curing for candlestick material he hauled to the saw-mills to have cut properly, for the thought of trying his hand at tables and chairs had taken possession of him.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

The rich physician who had been curing others, could not save himself from the poison of the crowded graveyard which had been allowed to remain at the back of his house. 

From Sermons on National Subjects by Kingsley, Charles