Example Sentences

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Volunteers have been using a mobile app to photograph, log and record species while searching through the forest or taking a leisurely walk.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

“I have been using my international experience serving the state as our representative for international trade and investment, which has a very heavy economic development piece to it,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

“Recently, consumer companies have been using the word ‘uncertainty’ more often,” writes Telsey Advisory Group Chief Executive Officer Dana Telsey on Thursday.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

They have been using multimillion-dollar missiles and jet fighters to intercept a barrage of Iran’s Shahed drones, which cost just tens of thousands of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Humans must have been using tools all along, however.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson