Example Sentences

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Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. 

From Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Twain, Mark

But the world had been whizzing ceaselessly from one miracle into another.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

For a month, shells from the American guns had been whizzing over Upper Town, with such small damage that citizens had continued to go about as usual.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)