Example Sentences

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Ever since Stephen Sondheim died last month, certain images have been flaring in my head, so insistently that I have to catch my breath.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021

Still, Francis is presiding over a church where tensions between European and African Catholics have been flaring.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2015