Example Sentences

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The asset manager said it had been marking down prices of Russian securities in its funds and that where there is no trade, prices could be adjusted to zero.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2022

Nnadi upped an existing arrangement with the KC Pet Project, a no-kill shelter in Kansas City, in which he had been marking each Chiefs win this season by paying for a pup’s adoption fee.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2020

The incident happened in April, as Mr Abbott was flying into Paris from Turkey where he had been marking Anzac Day.

From BBC • May 6, 2015

Meanwhile, the late great Chicago skyscraper-builder, Louis Sullivan, and his famed pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright, had been marking out an architecturally warmer style of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had been marking our way on my memory as well as possible, but I soon gave up the attempt as hopeless.

From Under the Andes by Stout, Rex