Example Sentences

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Sometimes while she was bathing Brianna, pieces of the mold would fall into the tub.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

“My father was bathing us. The younger brother was 5 days old,” Ms. Rani recalled.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2022

As Kumar spoke, a young man was bathing in his underwear on a small balcony, while others cooked lunch on stoves mounted on small gas cylinders placed by their beds.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2022

My father was bathing himself with water from a stack of water bottles in a storage closet.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2021

He was bathing in it, wallowing in it, positively luxuriating in it, his flickering tail hanging over the side of the bowl, flinging sugar across the table.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls