Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The utility recently installed water hookups for one secluded mountaintop community that had been relying on cisterns and a truck hauling creek water—a project Brewster said took six years to accumulate enough government money for.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Yayah's mother, Namina Jenneh, is a widow and had been relying on her young son to help provide for her other five children.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Israel, an oral surgeon at Columbia University and self-described “very ordinary American Jew,” told the New York Times he had been relying on the book since he was a medical student.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

Due to a dearth of data, the scientific community had been relying on rough approximations or poor models of ash composition.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

At least three of them, Cato, Clove, and Foxface, had been relying on it.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins