Example Sentences

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Sing Lee has been ironing out collars and shirts for thirty-five years.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

"Mrs. Bower is lying down, and Beulah has been ironing all the morning."

From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)