Example Sentences

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Businesses have been departing the station since the early 2000s, but the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the exodus.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2023

Venezuelans, many of whom have been departing their homeland due to the years of economic crisis the country has faced, do not currently need a visa to enter Mexico as tourists.

From Reuters • Jan. 7, 2022

Sleighs and dog trains have been departing for the maple forests, in our neighborhood, since about the 10th instant, until but few, comparatively, of the resident inhabitants are left.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

To be sure he did not, and he ought not to have done so; if he had, he would only have been departing from the practice of all his predecessors.

From Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Francis, George Henry