Example Sentences

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Everything the Dodgers had been preaching at last came to fruition.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025

“We had been preaching to the guys about the importance of winning each individual day,” Rodney Ward said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023

The couple had been preaching around Linfen since 1992, establishing congregations in improvised spaces such as factory dormitories and greenhouses.

From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2018

“Before he won the Emmy, I had been preaching that people had to recognize what he was doing: He’s faking a person,” Mr. Fallon said.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2014

In addition to attending protests over the murder at the Duke Chapel, he began reading about a branch of Catholicism called “liberation theology,” which Archbishop Romero had been preaching.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French