Example Sentences

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Jess Park's first-half goal proved to be the winner in an impressive 1-0 win over the world champions and it poured cold water over criticism that had been heating up.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

The brutal 2023 summer had been heating the Amazonia lake to temperatures far beyond anything previously recorded, and as they had feared, something was now happening to the pink river dolphins.

From National Geographic • Feb. 5, 2024

At least a year before August 1969, community tensions across Northern Ireland had been heating up, with civil rights marches and campaigns of civil disobedience.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2019

My former colleague, Ed Lazear, had a line that’s more apt: The crisis was like a giant popcorn popper,3 and it had been heating these kernels for a year as the crisis went on.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 12, 2013

He wet one finger and lifted an iron from the rack on the stove, where it had been heating.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep