Example Sentences

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The Soviet merchant fleet has been ranging beyond bloc trade routes for years, of course, but never have its excursions been quite so bold.

From Time Magazine Archive

This discouraged answer is hardly given, when another appears who has been ranging afar in search of a remedy—Kundry, arriving like the whirlwind, on a mare that staggers reaching the goal.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Ballad: The Rover's Apology Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray; Though I own that my heart has been ranging, Of nature the laws I obey, For nature is constantly changing.

From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray; Though I own that my heart has been ranging, Of nature the laws I obey, For nature is constantly changing.

From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

The fatness of a young chicken, crate-fed on buttermilk and oatmeal, is a radically different thing from the fatness of an old hen that has been ranging around the corn-crib.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)