Example Sentences

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"I didn't fit any of the patterns of any of the characters I was reading in my favourite books," she said.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

He encountered its flagship quarterly, City Journal, in high school, and it was “rigorous, urbane, and unafraid of heterodox conclusions,” unlike anything else he was reading.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

“Thankfully, I had been observing and watching everything. But I was reading the script off-stage and then someone would push me onstage and say, ‘I’ll meet you stage left, wing one.’

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Because when I was reading about it, it reminded me of how a pope is chosen.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Burton Gerber was reading a classified cable sent directly from Rome.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau