Example Sentences

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The U.S. has been destroying its remaining stockpiles at U.S.

From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2023

The King County Sheriff’s office has been destroying forfeited guns, but the ordinance ensures that practice continues, Council Chair Joe McDermott said.

From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2018

Ethanol has been destroying lawn-mower engines for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2018

“The bacchanalia of textbooks until now has been destroying our youth,” said one of the lawmakers involved, Frants A. Klintsevich, according to a transcript of the hearing.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2014

We feel like hiding our faces in shame, for it is the same man scourge that for many hundreds of years has been destroying the forests, the animals, and the birds of many other countries.

From Conservation Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)