Example Sentences

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In New Orleans, Juan Nasario said he had been replacing roofs during 12-hour shifts nearly every day since arriving from Guatemala four years ago, when he was 10.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023

The investigation determined that the fire began inside a building at the boatyard where a worker had been replacing a boat’s gas tank.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Since the late 1950s, adventurous artists had been replacing Picasso’s influence with that of Marcel Duchamp, master of visual puns.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2020

Dyachenko said the company had been replacing several kilometers of aging pipe which carries waste -- known as tailings -- from the firm's plant to a reservoir where waste is stored.

From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2016

Years later, I wondered if modern American society had been replacing a system of mythology and religious dogma with a system of reason as a way to explain ourselves and the world around us.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot