Example Sentences

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However, Ms Cullen said she had not used the chair herself and had been storing it in her garage since she bought it two and a half years ago.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

It became a really good conduit for us to work out a lot of the emotional stuff that we had been storing up and processing over the previous years.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2022

The contractor had been storing the information on an unclassified network and officials told Nakashima and Sonne that the data could be considered classified when aggregated.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2018

For those who missed all the drama, the leg had been removed from one John Wood, who lost it in a 2004 plane crash and had been storing it, mummified, in the smoker.

From New York Times • May 19, 2013

Dad says Pleiades had been storing their ships in a massive underground facility at the old Denver airport—they weren’t supposed to leave Earth on their first official trip for another two years.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera