Example Sentences

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In an interview last month, Luthi said he had been inviting the head of Interior to address his members “twice a year” since 2010.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2017

Zambia had been inviting pressure onto them until that point and were unable to change the pattern of the game thereafter.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2015

He had been inviting his listeners to the friendship of Christ, and turning to my little sister and me, he said,— "And these little children, too; won't they come?"

From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Larcom, Lucy

All her life Elizabeth had been inviting this moment; and the moment, when it came, was her Day of Judgment.

From The Iron Woman by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

And he had been inviting me into the work for which he had been ordained into the holy Church of Christ.

From The Heart's Kingdom by Daviess, Maria Thompson