Example Sentences

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Dahman has been storing most of his crop this year instead of trying to sell it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, which operates the facility, has been storing the treated water in hundreds of tanks that now cover most of the plant and are nearly full.

From Washington Times • Jul. 8, 2023

But regardless of how long a lab has been storing the DNA, a first step involves processing the DNA in a way that enables an upload to a genealogy database.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2023

To face the energy crunch, France has been storing gas and getting more of it from its European partners and Qatar.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George