Example Sentences

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Massaging the ordering slightly, under X we find “extinction,” in which Garfield describes a YouTube video where modern teenagers are asked to test-drive an old-fashioned ink-and-paper encyclopedia.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2023

Massaging the numbers or the models used to produce them would only open the rule to legal attack when it is inevitably challenged in court.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2020

Once I unpacked and assembled the chair—which was not at all relaxing—I observed that Flash Furniture’s Massaging Black Leather Executive Office Chair is black and is a chair.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 8, 2015

Massaging her back, going to McDonald's at one or two in the morning for hamburgers.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2010

Massaging his bruised ribs, he squinted resentfully into the glare of a torch.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw