Example Sentences

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Some employers had been refreshing their health and safety standards to make sure their workplaces were as safe as possible, she added.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

He added that it had been refreshing to make a funny movie at a time when "laughing seems to be forbidden": a reference to the global gloom from the coronavirus pandemic.

From Reuters • Sep. 4, 2021

Former Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, said that the generational shift fighting for a free Cuba in Miami had been refreshing.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2021

The downpour lasted but a short time, then the sun came out and dried the men's clothes; on the whole, it had been refreshing.

From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

The wind, which had been refreshing during the day, had changed at sunset, and now swept up slowly over the street in hot, faint gusts, plague-laden, from the East.

From Antonina by Collins, Wilkie