Example Sentences

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Now customers have been ordering more cautiously and he has had to cut back hours for workers.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025

Doctors who participate have been ordering fewer doses through the program since the spring.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2020

Fellow chefs from other restaurants have been ordering staff meals from him in solidarity, he says.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

For much longer than 50 years people have been ordering truth-tellers to shut up and punishing them when they refuse.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2019

I went to his mother, and have been ordering things for his funeral with as little cost as possible, to-morrow at ten at night.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan