Example Sentences

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Warner Bros. added that in recent months, Sheen had been forgetting his lines, turning up late, missing rehearsals and making "comments poisoning key working relationships."

From Reuters • Mar. 11, 2011

His only mistake in trying to escape had been forgetting about the incoming tide.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

She was going to George; but George was dying, and while he had been lying there in his lonely suffering, she had been forgetting him, and betraying him.

From Missing by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

But when she was alone, and looked her joy in the face, she was amazed to find how she had been forgetting Theodora, whose affairs had lately been uppermost.

From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

A cold fear ran through me as I heard these words, and the presentiment of some mishap, that for a few moments I had been forgetting, now came back in double force.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James