Example Sentences

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Or they were answering some non-crucial Instagram DM.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

"The reason why the polls are wrong," he explains, "is because the people who were answering these surveys were the wrong people."

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022

The BBC bosses were answering questions on the same morning Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced she was to leave her role, after less than a year, in order to focus on her writing career.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2022

“Suddenly, people were answering their emails,” Ms. N’Diaye-Mbaye said.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2022

And from the distance, as if it were answering, one of the cows mooed, a real bellow, long and loud.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien