Example Sentences

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One example, said Hentze, was labeling the modernization of public hospitals as investment whereas much of this money was going into operating costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Now he was labeling them for community members who might speak English, Hawaiian, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Tongan or Samoan.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

Lorri Martin, who works at the Walker Country Store, said she was labeling items when the quake hit so she stood in the bathroom doorway.

From Fox News • Jul. 9, 2021

While the music industry standard was labeling all product for easy finding at the store, Factory Records, which released “Unknown Pleasures” as its first proper full length album, ostensibly operated on more utopian ideals.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2019

She never even took the time to get to know me—and yet she was labeling me.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers