Example Sentences

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The town had been tackling the shortage, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It was the kind of work that friendly, unassuming Philip Jessup had been tackling ably but not dramatically most of his adult life.

From Time Magazine Archive

I suppose to a fellow who for weeks had been tackling macaroons and limado it must have been like Heaven.

From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)