Example Sentences

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Before the current conflict, Iran was pumping up to 3.5 million barrels a day, exporting roughly half of that.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

She said that, as her adrenaline was pumping, she didn’t fear for her personal safety, “though in retrospect, maybe I should have.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Corning bought an empty soybean field across from Hemlock and was pumping out solar wafers 17 months after the first steel went into the ground.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

"The noise was so loud my heart was pumping," he told me.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

It was as if I was walking in her moccasins, that’s how much my own heart was pumping and my own hands were sweating.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech