Example Sentences

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Even before the hearing began, lawmakers had been steaming.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

One by one, the 20 or 25 Communist bloc ships that had been steaming through the South China Sea toward North Viet Nam changed course.

From Time Magazine Archive

On April 20 the Amethyst had been steaming up the Yangtse River on a routine mission to Nanking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reporter Seidenfaden, like many another Dane, was curious about a long line of Nazi warships, mine sweepers, transports which had been steaming slowly through the Great Belt all day.

From Time Magazine Archive

We did not find them till we had been steaming for an hour and a half.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir