Example Sentences

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One of victims, 43-year-old Juan Carlos Alemán Mendoza, had been rescuing passengers from a local bus which had been washed away by flooding, local media reported.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2022

The day before, the California National Guard had been rescuing stranded people by air.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2018

I had been rescuing dogs for dozens of years and had pulled three times that many ticks out of my own skin.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2015

The detained Americans said they had been rescuing 33 children after the Jan. 12 earthquake and had planned to care for them in an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2010