Example Sentences

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This speaker was released in 2018, and Ultimate Ears has been coasting on it ever since.

From The Verge • Apr. 13, 2022

Capuano, a 66-year-old white man, has been coasting to re-election on the former for the better part of two decades, before which he was the mayor of Somerville, a residential suburb of Boston.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2018

But since the 1970s humanity has been coasting.

From Economist • Jan. 10, 2013

The series has been coasting for a number of seasons now.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2012

He has been coasting along the African shore, and there collected a few curiosities, which he is passing off for proofs of his pretended discovery.

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.