Example Sentences

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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were effecting and infecting.

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

“Not a big deal … We were effecting a lawful arrest.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2021

Not, however, because new laws were passed in her favor; indeed, the laws were framed rather with the purpose of overcoming the results of those circumstances which were effecting her emancipation.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred

This was undoubtedly the correct decision for their immediate purpose, as again they were effecting savings in time, cost, complexity, and weight.

From The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design by Hobbs, Leonard S.

It quitted it in the midst of the Russians of Platof and of Tchitchakof, who were effecting in that town, and at that very moment, the junction of the armies of Moscow and of Moldavia.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de