Example Sentences

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He’d been a more than congenial host, showing this writer around the cavernous space where a group of what looked like teenagers with laptops were composing the landscapes of the film’s fictional world Pandora.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

If Spotify were composing a song about the past few years, it would not be up-tempo pop.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2023

The times in which these two wonderful artists were composing were very different.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021

When we graphed quadratic functions using translations, we were composing functions.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

They might have been taken for a pair of conspirators plotting a move; no one would ever have suspected that they were composing a performance, unique of its sort, which would be famous to-morrow.

From The Bill-Toppers by Castaigne, J. André