Example Sentences

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He’s famous enough to be opening on Broadway in “King Lear,” but he has to be pushed onstage and is forgetting lines.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

The federation accused Romania’s government is forgetting the “heroism shown by health professionals” during the pandemic.

From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2023

"Nowadays everyone is forgetting Afghanistan... No one is speaking about this, all the news is about other things," she said.

From Reuters • Feb. 15, 2022

Or is forgetting the details of a dessert a good thing, given that everyday life is filled with an enormous number of details, too many for a finite human brain to remember accurately?

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2021

"Auntie Seema is talking so much about the planet sometimes she is forgetting the people are different from trees."

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi