Example Sentences

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On Wednesday, rescuers digging through the ruins reached five survivors, whom they had been supplying with oxygen, water and food.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

Shops in Hexham had been supplying purple ribbons all week to be placed around the town in her memory.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2023

It said the Friday attack “almost certainly” targeted a Russian naval tug that had been supplying weapons to troops on the Russian-occupied Snake Island.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

In addition, the vast economic aid that the government had been supplying to households has expired.

From Washington Times • May 6, 2022

I told Chiron about the Triple G Ranch—how Quintus had bought his scorpions there and Geryon had been supplying Kronos’s army.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan