Example Sentences

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“I was marking these different items up by like 50%,” says Arora, now 17.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Rebecca, a teacher from Cardiff, was marking work in her classroom last November when she felt huge pressure on her chest.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2024

That’s where it started off with the parenthesis; it was marking a sense of time passing but also emphasizing the single exposure.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023

He was in Berlin to honor Wolfgang Schäuble, the conservative politician who was marking 50 years in the Bundestag.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023

Klaus ignored the insult and opened the book to where one of the scraps of paper was marking his place.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket