Example Sentences

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"We had been executing at a high level the entire game and the guys were intent on bending but not breaking," NFL sacks leader Myles Garrett of the Browns said.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

I supposed he had been executing some deed.

From The Expressman and the Detective by Pinkerton, Allan

Pompeius had broken through the blockade; and now the two armies had been executing tedious manoeuvres, fencing for a vantage-ground before joining pitched battle.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

News had been brought that the Americans had been executing great additional works, and the British general was anxious to learn the nature of these before he advanced.

From True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)