Example Sentences

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That “you only live once” mentality prompted some people to limit spending in order to pursue lifelong goals they had been postponing.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

She had weeks to go until early retirement, and she had been postponing surgery to replace a hip injured in an icy fall.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2014

Piano dealers report that several customers who had been postponing purchases came in and bought pianos the day after the contract was announced.

From Time Magazine Archive

A dozen broils that Jim had been postponing for Belle to arbitrate had now to be considered.

From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Seton, Ernest Thompson

For the last ten years he had been postponing the necessity of buying new charts of certain sections of the North Sea.

From The Vultures by Merriman, Henry Seton