Example Sentences

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Both guests had been hating each other at a distance for some time�Pearson because of McCarthy's character-daubing attacks on people Pearson likes, McCarthy because of Pearson's character-daubing attacks on him.

From Time Magazine Archive

I would have wasted myself away if I had been hating all these years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Someone had taken him in, someone had shown him a kindness, and, even in his semi-stupor, he wondered, because, for an incalculable period, he had been hating and hated.

From Bruce of the Circle A by Titus, Harold

Did he recollect that only a few hours before he had been hating Aunt Amy with a fine frenzy of hatred?

From Jeremy by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

And for his sake she had been hating children!

From The Christmas Angel by Brown, Abbie Farwell