Example Sentences

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Jonathan Fletcher, who manages a Best Western hotel in Dorset called The Grange, says customers have been phoning all week cancelling meals and parties.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2021

They say patients have been phoning, texting and emailing constantly since the FDA approval was announced June 7.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2021

Doesn't always work but at least someone is trying as opposed to TWD where the writers for the past few seasons have been phoning it in.

From New York Times • May 22, 2016

Who will mobilise those thousands, tens of thousands I suspect of people who have been phoning and emailing colleagues tonight?

From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2015

She told me that her students at the Virginia Innocence Project clinic have been phoning all around the commonwealth to find even one instance of the state charging someone in this manner.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2014