Example Sentences

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The Cultural Affairs Department had been interviewing candidates for the vacant positions and had made an offer for the job of arts manager.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

Another of the investigators, Jasminka Džumhurs, said the group had been interviewing Ukrainian mothers and was particularly concerned about the impact of the attacks on children's rights.

From Reuters • Dec. 2, 2022

Dallas reportedly had been interviewing candidates for the coaching job even as Garrett was still officially the head coach.

From Fox News • Jan. 5, 2020

He had been interviewing Jessica Leeds, the seventy-four-year old woman who claims to have been assaulted by Donald Trump on an airplane in the early nineteen-eighties.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2016

"Who's the man you are after?" questioned one of the men who had been interviewing Andy and Fred.

From The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Stratemeyer, Edward