Example Sentences

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What a shell it is, crowning a body that is perfectly shaped to ease through the water.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2021

No one is crowning any of those four teams Super Bowl champion just yet.

From Washington Times • Jul. 22, 2020

That Francis is crowning his Jubilee Year of Mercy with Teresa's canonization is evidence that he sees her as the model of the merciful church he envisions.

From US News • Sep. 3, 2016

We can care less about what kind of recognition we are getting or who is crowning us and who is not crowning us.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2012

Some one is crowning me: I am a queen before the world.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various