Example Sentences

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In Pakistan, 20-something Mariam, her widowed mother, Fariha, and her younger brother are struggling when Uncle Nasir suddenly becomes very interested in the relatives he had been neglecting.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Purdue introduced OxyContin in the late 1990s, at a moment when the medical profession was seeking better ways to alleviate pain, which it had been neglecting.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2021

I did immediately binge “The Morning Show” because I had been neglecting my TV shows.

From Washington Times • Feb. 12, 2020

Here was a shop that had been neglecting music for years, turning to games and DVDs and electronic hardware, compacting its music catalogue into an ever smaller space.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2013

It was true of course—I had been neglecting my friends even more than I had been neglecting myself.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss