Example Sentences

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"Carlos certainly didn't invent tennis, but he is perfecting it," former British player Mark Petchey added on TNT Sports.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2025

What has not changed is the company’s basic goal, which is perfecting the consumer experience.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 18, 2019

New firms abound: Tissue Testing Technologies is working on ways of warming organs uniformly; Sylvatica Biotech is perfecting recipes for cryoprotectants; X-therma is attempting to mimic cryoprotective proteins.

From Economist • Feb. 4, 2016

There's a tremendous solo from a woman who announces that she is perfecting her imitations.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013

Our present system of national highways by which all parts of the country are being connected is perfecting the opportunity.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association