Example Sentences

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Senior Canadian officials also said Canada had been strengthening legislation to combat money laundering and adding resources to fight it.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2021

He said the country had been strengthening its rules over time.

From US News • Apr. 4, 2016

The focus had been strengthening the attack and increasing the creativity, even if Mario Mandzukic had gone and the departure of Arda Turan hurt.

From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2015

Caddy had a superstition about me which had been strengthening in her mind ever since that night long ago when she had lain asleep with her head in my lap. 

From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles

He told John and Martha Yeardley that the meeting they had just held had been strengthening to his faith.

From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John