Example Sentences

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One of the passengers, Velutha Parambath, said the man had been drawing attention to himself before takeoff by praying aloud.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2023

"Given that David started working in 1959 and had been drawing The Bash Street Kids since 1962, he is the single most important illustrator in Beano history."

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2023

The process, one step in concentrating the ore into weapons-grade uranium, leaked uranium and manganese into groundwater, and in 1990, regulators found that residents had been drawing that contaminated water from 22 wells.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2022

That filing came a month after Eduardo Bitran, who was then head of Chile's state development agency, Corfo, raised similar concerns about the amount of brine SQM had been drawing and other infractions.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2018

She had been drawing a picture and Rab was telling her what to draw.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes