Example Sentences

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Some Twitter users complained, suggesting the officers should have been solving crimes.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2022

In this chapter, we have been solving quadratic equations of the form ax2 + bx + c = 0.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

If, while watching the Super Bowl, you had wanted to estimate how far a pass thrown by Patrick Mahomes traveled through the air, you would have been solving a quadratic equation.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2020

It’s unfair to put all of this on Goff; defenses have been solving the Rams’ run-heavy offense since December.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2019

This he did by lagging in his studies, writing poetry when he should have been solving problems, and refusing point blank to obey orders.

From Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 by Wright, Henrietta Christian