Example Sentences

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I had photographed Elle a few years back.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

The Met officer said he had photographed the brothers and pulled down some plastic barriers in front of their bikes in an attempt to stop them escaping and he felt "lucky to be alive".

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025

A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the shop owner in Amritsar who had photographed the Sikh militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023

Marilyn Meador, a retired nurse in Wichita Falls, Texas, noted that a teenager in Florida had suggested that a bird she had photographed was a Western meadowlark, because of the tail-feather pattern.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

During die war, a national magazine had photographed him in Hurtgen Forest; he had posed, more than just obligingly, with a Thanksgiving turkey in each hand.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger