Example Sentences

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Although Starlink isn’t active in Russia, Moscow’s forces had been obtaining terminals from middlemen who sent them from other countries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Mr. Klee noted that patients had been obtaining the ingredients on their own for some time, buying the taurursodiol supplement from Amazon and paying up to $11,000 a month for the sodium phenylbutyrate.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

He had never hinted to her the means by which he had been obtaining money.

From The Nether World by Gissing, George

Her medicine for the relief of it was discontinued, and so, too, were certain medicines she had been obtaining for sleep.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

Up to the time the United States entered the war, Germany, in spite of the watchful British fleet, had been obtaining large supplies from the United States through Holland, Denmark, and the Scandinavian peninsula.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Hendrick, Burton Jesse