Example Sentences

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The Reds' Premier League title defence has contained elements of the shambolic, increasing scrutiny and pressure on Slot after winning the title in his first campaign.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

This polluted water has contained cancer-causing benzene above federal standards, making it liquid hazardous waste, according to environmental regulators.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2024

It is unclear if the agency can back up that bravado; the history of American space exploration has contained many unfulfilled promises and disappointments.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2022

For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2022

What fortitude must a man be possess'd of that can offer two such sentences to the eye of the public in a paper which for that space has contained nothing else in the political way?

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 2 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo