Example Sentences

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When middle-income Chinese consumers were splurging on designer goods several years ago, their homes were appreciating in value.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

While we were appreciating the music from the street, a Mexican gentleman in cowboy boots and hat approached us.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021

“By the late 1980s, Ferraris were appreciating so much it was possible to lease one, keep it three or four years, and then turn it in for a profit,” Mr. Tegtmeier said.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018

In a separate paper published in April, researchers at Harvard University found that properties at higher elevations were appreciating faster than properties at lower elevations, a phenomenon they dubbed “climate gentrification.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2018

I knew they were appreciating much more delicately and truly than I the sublime skeleton and the mighty fungoids of the dead Glastonbury.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)