Example Sentences

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Banks’ loan losses have been drawing growing scrutiny from investors lately, following a pair of high-profile bankruptcies that saddled lenders with losses.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 16, 2025

Coming into this role as a director, you must have been drawing on all of the directing you've experienced in your life.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

Since the 1980s, the brothers have been drawing international acclaim for works such as Mao’s Guilt, a bronze statue of the former Communist dictator kneeling remorsefully.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

Recently, the site and its mysteries have been drawing record numbers of visitors to this place near the provincial capital of Sanliurfa in the borderland with Syria — 850,000 in 2022.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2023

“Now, Mr. Pip,” said Mr. Jaggers, “attend, if you please. You have been drawing pretty freely here; your name occurs pretty often in Wemmick’s cash-book; but you are in debt, of course?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens