Example Sentences

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For 20 years "Tommy" Horder has been doctoring the British Royal Family.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our engineer has been doctoring her bottom with fat and patches, and pronounced it safe to go down the river by dropping slowly.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden

And they have not grown better, though Voelzke, the surgeon-general has been doctoring them every day; and, by his salves, mixtures, leeches, and blisters, causing me almost as much pain as the eyes themselves.

From Napoleon and Blucher by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)