Example Sentences

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Rather than outright deportations – Mexico only sent back around 8,500 people in the first three months of this year – the Mexican authorities have been employing a form of ‘internal removal’ instead.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2024

It’s a strategy the U.S. men have been employing for a couple years, although Mantia rarely practices with Lehman and Dawson.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2021

With the Rams, Staley ran a 3-4 as opposed to the 4-3 the Chargers have been employing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2021

It is utterly brilliant, works like a charm and, given that I have been employing it since I read the book, may have changed my life.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2017

We have to see whether the considerations which we have been employing may not be of use to us about England.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage