Example Sentences

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Nordstrom has been among the best-performing department store chains, though its discount stores, called Nordstrom Rack, have been faring better than its department stores.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2017

So the animals might have been faring better for a few years now.

From The Verge • Sep. 14, 2017

And that is saying a lot, because bees have been faring increasingly poorly for years now.

From Salon • May 1, 2013

John F. Kocik, a research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries service, says that in recent years salmon have been faring poorly during their time at sea.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2011

Let me rather ask you, captain, how you have been faring, and on what seas you have been tossing.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.