Example Sentences

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After carrying out an internal examination, she discovered that the baby was crowning and she "could see hair".

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2022

As the child was crowning without complication, Perez said, Sutton wordlessly cut the woman’s perineum.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2018

“Everyone was crowning me the three-time world champion before we had even started, and that stressed me out,” Biles explained.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2016

The Eighteenth Century was crowning its gray-hairs with the wreath of Progress.

From An Oration On The Life And Services Of Thomas Paine by Ingersoll, Robert Green

The "Old Men's Chorus" was crowning triumph of the performance.

From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)