Example Sentences

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"I was sitting in my bedroom eating noodles and looking at my phone. If I had been eating in the kitchen, I probably would not be alive today."

From BBC • May 31, 2026

An hour earlier, many of these same worshipers had been eating pizza.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

I’d just moved to Barcelona and, like any newly anointed local, had been eating pan con tomate – crunchy, tomato-slicked toast – in cafés and taverns all over town.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

His conscience had been eating him for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2024

I asked, because if I was honest with myself, it had been eating at me that she got the jump on me like that.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin