Example Sentences

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We’re now realizing that just drinking water from a plastic bottle is depositing microplastics into our bloodstream.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022

She plans to get a master’s degree, and so is depositing $2,500 a year from her year-end bonus into an annuity.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

The Falcon 9 rocket is depositing a capsule into orbit and, according to The New York Times it should circle Earth twice, before landing in the Pacific Ocean about three and a half hours later.

From Inc • Dec. 8, 2010

Over at the shiny silver safety-deposit boxes, an almost unfeasibly good-looking young woman is depositing her jewels.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2010

Close by the shell, in which, by direction of the parish beadle, a man is depositing his wife, is an old wall, which, partaking of the universal decay around it, is tumbling to pieces.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles