Example Sentences

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Previously, Athenian military enterprise had depended on a small elite, men wealthy enough to provide horses to serve as cavalry or to equip themselves as hoplites, a type of armored infantry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

The 25-year-old widow, who had depended on her husband as the breadwinner, now has three young children to care for.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

After the war started, Brussels and European nations, especially Germany, which had depended heavily on Russian gas, leaned on Oslo for help.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

Others, like Alexeev, said their ability to make it out perhaps had depended on nothing more than the person manning the Ukrainian exit booth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022

But he was afraid of dying alone, afraid of being deserted by the person he had depended on for so long.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler