Example Sentences

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Civil servants who have been minding the shop at Stormont for nearly two years will meet their new ministers provide them with their day-one departmental briefs.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2024

While it was minding everyone else's business, Laventhol & Horwath apparently should have been minding its own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Somewhere in this subdued family din I was presumed to have been minding my own business for many hours.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

I carry a scar on the shin-bone made with an adze I should have been minding when I was looking after her.

From The Making of an American by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

"I have been attending to mine own business," answered De Bracy calmly, "as you, Fitzurse, have been minding yours."

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir