Example Sentences

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The newest numbers may not surprise Americans who have been opening their utility bills with dismay for months or longer.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

Arguably neither Carse nor Potts - the latter playing his first Test for more than a year - should have been opening the bowling, and they let Australia get off to a flyer.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

Some banks have been opening up credit cards at a quicker rate after a slowdown earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Latham and his graduate students have been opening and cataloguing the letters, which were written in 1966, shortly after Dylan had a motorcycle accident and stopped touring for eight years.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2022

I was closing when I should have been opening, but I finally got it and everything looked fine to me.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls