Example Sentences

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Nurses said they had been finding themselves in such situations more and more since 2018, when Ascension took over St. Joseph.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

The coroner's court in Norwich heard that Draco's mother, who was 20-weeks pregnant at the time, had been "finding it hard to manage" and the house had "got out of hand".

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2022

Other epidemiologists, such as Sherman James, had been finding similar patterns with different groups of African Americans, from farmers in North Carolina to teenagers in California.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2020

A complication had been finding 43 lawmakers to sign a petition demanding a change of leader.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2018

I thought of the hours I had whiled away staring at its beauty and how hard it had been finding the right name for it.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls