Example Sentences

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Several people have been criticizing the town’s spending habits.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2024

Lawmakers have been criticizing the state’s Department of Juvenile Justice, which oversees juvenile prisons in the state, for years.

From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2021

The argument was essentially that you have been criticizing football while also, until fairly recently, being part of football broadcasts.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2019

You say you have been criticizing aspects of the criminal justice system for 53 years.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2018

The weakness of our denomination in such cities as New York results from the acceptance of the method of Scripture interpretation which I have been criticizing.

From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins