Example Sentences

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They “appeared to have sustained fire-related damage inside an Official Ballot Drop Box,” according to a news release from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

The best compounders have sustained ROICs 10 or even 15 percentage points better than the average stock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

However, at least five aircraft parked at airports have sustained damage from Iranian attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

The high-end private Gandhi Hospital in northwest Tehran had its windows blown out in the first days of the war, one of 13 hospitals to have sustained damage, according to the World Health Organisation.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

One of the jurors told a newspaper reporter, “Could I have spoken, I should have answered ‘not guilty,’ and the men in the jury box would have sustained me.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling