Example Sentences

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Melissa was charting a painstakingly slow path through the Caribbean as a monster Category 5 storm.

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

But Bass was charting her own course by the late 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022

He added the luxury group was "charting a new course for the future".

From Reuters • Jan. 17, 2022

May her family take solace that she passed away on her terms, at home with loved ones, knowing she was charting the course for her last days.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018

I was charting out with Janice his April and May schedules of meetings and speaking engagements in the expansive war room of his Flushing headquarters.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee