Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, growth has been recovering, supported by three interest-rate cuts since February, while consumers have been returning to the shops as household incomes are supported by income-tax cuts and rising wages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Many are thought to have been returning from a Christmas holiday in Thailand.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024

As I try to make sense of this sick yearning and poisoned nostalgia, I have been returning to the work of the highly influential social psychologist and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2024

While crowds have been returning since the pandemic pause, only about 55,000 seats are being prepped this year, she said Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

If the hinges had squeaked just now, he must have been returning from a second trip.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw