Example Sentences

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England have been formulating plans for warm-up matches before their three overseas Test trips next winter and there has been a midnight curfew in place for the white-ball team.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

“We have been formulating for quite some time things that we think would be effective,” he said Monday.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2021

Since 2012 authorities in the Galápagos, with Island Conservation, have been formulating what they consider to be the most complex eradication plan of an inhabited island to date.

From Scientific American • Nov. 1, 2017

The derivation from the Sanskrit words mandros and agora seems to fit naturally into the scheme of explanation which I have been formulating.

From The Evolution of the Dragon by Smith, G. Elliot