Example Sentences

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Speaking to students years after they take his classes and grasp the effect on their lives has been refreshing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

It has been refreshing and all the coaching staff have been positive.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2024

Pederson’s path has been refreshing for a franchise that has four wins in the past two seasons combined.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Acting has been refreshing for Ms. Ferreira because, she said, “modeling felt like my physical body was a prop.”

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2019

Of course it's magnanimous in me to say so, but I owe her no grudge; on the contrary, it has been refreshing to see, in this nineteenth century, a girl so frankly in love.

From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore