Example Sentences

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The city had been logging a few coronavirus infections for days.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2022

In France, Weah had been logging minutes for PSG’s U-19 squad and the reserve team in the fourth division, scoring twice last month.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2018

People had been logging trees that were hundreds or thousands of years old, and these are slow-growing species.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2013

Like the pilot of Old 97, he had been logging close to 90 m.p.h. as he rocketed across the South from Baltimore to Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

The men who had been logging in the camp two months back had left a keg of maple-syrup and a half barrel of flour, and the bear broke into both—successively—and alternately.

From Joy in the Morning by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman