Example Sentences

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"My watch said that I had been cycling for three hours," Abdelaleem says.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

He had been cycling to and from his job as a factory supervisor.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2024

That’s how quickly the Titans turned around a franchise that had been cycling through quarterbacks, coaches and losing seasons since the last playoff victory in January 2004.

From Washington Times • Jan. 3, 2017

All of them, along with a number of other crochet volunteers, had been cycling in and out of Olek’s studio for weeks.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016

A chopper that had been cycling above started to descend and move toward the crowd.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah