Example Sentences

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The teenager's family said he had been "jumping waves with his big brother" when he disappeared in strong currents at Crosby Beach, Merseyside, on 30 June.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024

Winners had been jumping into Poppie’s Pond off the 18th green at Mission Hills since 1988, and Vu continued the tradition by leaping off a small dock into murky water on a chilly day.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2023

“Right before I walked down the aisle my shoes were so wet I was slipping in them. I had been jumping through those gross, deceptively deep New York City puddles.”

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2016

Little Josh, who won a race over the National fences in December, had been jumping well in the main before ploughing through the fourth-last fence, having met it at about halfway up.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2013

All his life, it seemed, Jim had been jumping at the next new thing, the bigger and better thing.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French