Example Sentences

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One main issue for Temple has been stopping the run.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2021

She said she has been stopping by a private post office box she keeps on Bourbon Street a few blocks past the normally surging tourist stretch and finds some human interaction from time to time.

From Washington Times • Mar. 25, 2020

There’s an elderly gentleman named George who has been stopping by the funeral home on occasion to talk about anything from the weather to the most recent details of his grief work.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2017

He has been stopping in for years at Hunt ’n Gear, along the Milton Avenue commercial strip that runs north from downtown.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2015

He has been stopping by briefly every day since the SIM raid.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez