Example Sentences

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It was supposed to come down after the first year, but has cemented its legacy in the years since.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Craig Agranoff, a Florida-based marketing consultant, says it’s quite possible that Norris’s fame will only grow in the years to come, given how much the “Chuck Norris facts” concept has cemented itself in the culture.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

Over the past decade, Norway has cemented its complete and utter ownership of this event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

The Grammys were an appropriate exclamation point on an extraordinary year that has cemented the 31-year-old's reign over global music.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

We have thought of these words together, and the mind by its own operation has cemented them together, so that when we think of one it is apt to make us remember the other.

From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by Loisette, A. (Alphonse)