Example Sentences

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This was on a sun-glazed October afternoon at an outdoor cafe near his uptown apartment, and he was bettering that bad taste with a scone and an Americano.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

Soon he was bettering the other Harlem jazzleaders by writing his own songs�'"Mood Indigo," "Lazy Rhap-sody," "Cotton Club Stomp," "Hot and Bothered."

From Time Magazine Archive

At all these studies Ged was apt, and within a month was bettering lads who had been a year at Roke before him.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

As the days passed without catastrophe and without news save that her lover was bettering in hospital, she staved off the truth, trusting that the next night would bring inspiration.

From The Westcotes by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

He had been resting in the certainty of Tenney's crippled state, but the wounded foot, he knew, was bettering every day, and with it Tira's security lessened.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice