Example Sentences

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I was forgetting instructions and struggling with technologies I had always handled with ease.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Seventy-nine-year-old Genevieve Lane volunteered to take the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi in a clinical trial because she was forgetting words and misplacing her keys.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024

"Dad got more fragile. He was forgetting to get his car insured, he was missing appointments."

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

In rehearsals, I was so focused on getting my singing and my talking right that I was forgetting about living through that clarinet.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2022

To reading the stories after feeling like he was forgetting the words.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova