Example Sentences

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Obviously, your partner’s movers were charging way more than that if they asked for an extra $300 on top of a $350 estimate.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

Some 20-somethings were charging the bank for black-car rides from the office to their nearby apartments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

The 2021 report by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Alex Marquardt said private operators were charging exorbitant sums to Afghans desperate to leave their country after the U.S. withdrawal.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

By contrast Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsburys were charging 144.45p and 149.61p per litre - some 1.9p and 2.1p less.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2024

By the end of the month, fourteen churches and four civic groups had chipped in to raise almost all of what the lawyers were charging.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose