Example Sentences

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Yet human industrial civilization has been mistreating our oceans, and it shows.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2021

The bouncy, nimble, velvet-voiced Moes have appeared, they inform Nomax, because in addition to drinking too heavily, he has been mistreating his girlfriend, Lorraine, who has consequently walked out on him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2017