Example Sentences

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"We were curing him by making him feel worse - it's a very difficult thing to process."

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2024

“He feels bad that his brother Warren wasn’t present when the fairies were curing everybody.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

So they stood upon the deck of the Cautious Clara, in whose standing rigging, divers fluttering articles of dress were curing, in company with a few tongues and some mackerel.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles

Any one entering the room would have believed that we were curing a wolf's pelt.

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard

His glance passed from a great antelope hide, drying on a frame, to the bamboo racks on which sun-seared strips of flesh were curing over a smudge fire.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames