Example Sentences

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“In the beginning stages of the pandemic, we were attributing the increase to life being disrupted,” she said.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2022

“To appease me, he carried a Christmas tree across Boston, but then had to sleep for several hours. We were attributing the fatigue to stress from moving and starting a new job.”

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021

Some people were attributing the poem to Ta-Nehisi Coates on Twitter.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2021

Chalian said Iowa Democratic Party officials were attributing the delay to “quality control” issues caused by a new digital app used by precinct officials.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2020

The Julius appeared in print in 1517, of course anonymously, and Erasmus was pleased with its reception; but he soon found that people who were not in the secret were attributing it to him.

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)