Example Sentences

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"We have been receiving text messages from seafarers saying we're running low on provisions, we're running low on fuel, we're running low on water, we're running low on food," she told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

You have been living in a lot of uncertainty, and now you have more uncertainty, along with millions of other retirees and people who have been receiving disability benefits until their full retirement age.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

Most American adults have been receiving their Covid vaccines at pharmacies—and large pharmacy chains are still administering them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

"People are pissed," one senior House Democrat told Axios about the calls their offices have been receiving, adding that Jeffries himself was "very frustrated."

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

What you have been doing is feeding him precisely the kind of story that he would have been receiving in his native land.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson