Example Sentences

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Ike had lived in England for two years by this point.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Neill, 78, said in a weekend interview he had lived with the blood cancer for about five years but his chemotherapy treatment eventually stopped working.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

None of his neighbors knew to whom the graves belonged, or where the families who had lived in their immediate vicinity might be.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

But over several decades, Sandel said the nearly 200 Ngogo chimpanzees had lived in harmony.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

He was there, and convenient, and remarkably lacking in common sense for someone who had lived all his eighteen years in New York City.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny