Example Sentences

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The group has been decorating Stapleford, in Nottinghamshire, with toppers throughout the year, including 10 festive toppers in the build-up to Christmas.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2022

“We kept saying, ‘Hey, what’s going on with our delivery?’” said Ms. Branch, a veterinary technician who has been decorating her house for Christmas for seven years.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

For the last eight years, she has been decorating her front yard in order to brighten someone’s day.

From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2015

Since 1964, the Metropolitan Museum has been decorating its holiday tree with eighteenth-century angels from Naples: exquisite polychrome figurines, robed in silk, with terra-cotta faces and wings carved of wood.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 21, 2014

She has been decorating since the first day we moved in.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan