Example Sentences

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Lauren Chavez had scrolled through a series of horror stories on TikTok with videos showing people camping out in U.S. airports for hours on end.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2025

For 24 hours, they had scrolled on their phones and studied phrases such as wind shear and barometric pressure.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

The advertisers said LinkedIn was counting video ad “views” from users’ LinkedIn apps, even when the videos were playing only off-screen because users had scrolled past them.

From Reuters • Aug. 4, 2021

Back in March and April, Hoggarth had scrolled through Facebook posts by big-city frontline health workers who described losing three or four patients a shift — a “horror story,” she called it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2020

She had scrolled through the script several times, and each time it remained foreign to her, even though she had written it.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2016