Example Sentences

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I wish now that I had hugged her.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023

She told investigators that she had hugged Padilla and asked him to sit with her, telling him he appeared angry.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Longhurst, who called Clarke “a deep joy,” said that in the Chichester production, she would not start rehearsing until she had hugged everyone in the room.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

But I wish now that I had hugged her.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2020

So much had happened to him that it seemed days, not hours, since he had patted Star and murmured to her, since he had hugged Annad and kissed his mother good-bye.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda