Example Sentences

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“They were barbecuing next door,” Semans told me.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2019

Some residents were barbecuing while children played in bounce houses and dozens danced to hip-hop and listened to go-go bands.

From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2016

Randolph said he and his brother were barbecuing outside the apartment complex when police arrived.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2015

But at the edge of the park, where people were barbecuing, stood the Guy with the Drone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 11, 2015

Next door to us they were barbecuing and he landed on the barbecue, stole a sausage and brought it straight back to me, an act that caused some tension between the neighbours and us.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2015