Example Sentences

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From 2010 to 2017, gay men had been disappearing in alarming numbers from Toronto’s lively gay village.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2018

Local factory and garment jobs had been disappearing for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2018

One by one, the writers had been disappearing.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2017

So experts on the secretive state were puzzled by reports last week that portraits of the younger Kim had been disappearing from public buildings.

From Time Magazine Archive

But for the last five years, they had been disappearing; slowly at first, and then fast, in a great and terrible rush.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell