Example Sentences

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While Prince William was born in mid-summer on the longest day of the year, his father King Charles has been praising those in Antarctica experiencing the shortest day of the year.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

Margaritis Schinas, the commission’s vice president, for example, recently visited Qatar and has been praising the country’s reforms on social media.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Mr. Schiff has been praising Mr. Steele for a year.

From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 2017

And since 2014, Xi has been praising the Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian thinker Wang Yangming.

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2017

We heard the celebrated organ of St Benedict, which has been praising God in tremendous hallelujahs ever since it was put up, and a hundred years have only matured the richness of its tones.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various