Example Sentences

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The borrower, who lives in Gurabo, a town of 45,000, wanted to lower his payments after he stopped receiving money from a family member who had been supplementing his income.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2018

That was a welcome event for Diane Draper, who for 17 years had been supplementing her personal $800-a-year kindergarten shopping budget by raiding Dumpsters in back of office-supply stores.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been supplementing his school work in physics with experimentations upon his own behalf.

From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg

Words could not more plainly have said that, although she had been supplementing her provisions by petty thefts, her employer knew nothing about them.

From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright