Example Sentences

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But that meant that when the recession did come, the means we had been employing to keep juicing growth were insufficient for an actual rescue effort.

From Fox News • Mar. 25, 2020

“We all had been employing the blacklisted writers,” Mr. Douglas wrote in a 2012 memoir, “I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist.”

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2020

The Mariners had been employing openers for LeBlanc and Tommy Milone since the beginning of June.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2019

Yet, moving to a rural community made him reconsider the techniques he had been employing.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2017

The professor added that all through his illness he had been employing himself by examining these figures.

From Prince Zaleski by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)