Example Sentences

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Campbell had contributed money to Finkenauer’s campaign but also had been eying Franken.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2022

Crandon had been eying Revel for a year.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015

Lieberman was 45 years old and had been eying Washington for a while, having lost a 1980 congressional race to Republican Larry DeNardis.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2011

Obeying the gesture, at once menacing and imperious, that accompanied these words, the mountebank, who had been eying his prospective host not without visible signs of misgiving, reluctantly entered.

From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart

"What'll you bet?" demanded Allan Harding, who had been eying the canoeists sharply.

From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Smith, Ruel Perley