Example Sentences

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But the Hawkeyes had one crucial thing working in their favor: a coach who had been training his entire life for this exact scenario.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Sterling had been training away from the rest of his Chelsea team-mates after failing to secure a move in the summer transfer window.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

"She's an amazing person. An unbelievable goalkeeper. We lost Mary in the summer but Phallon had been training the whole of the previous season," said Le Tissier.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

“It was like everything I had ever done, my 10,000 hours on all these things coming together in a one-minute format. I didn’t know I had been training for that day,” Givens said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

That year, a group of MK soldiers who had been training in Tanzania and Zambia crossed the Zambezi River into Rhodesia with the intention of making their way home.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela