Example Sentences

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Soon, real and doctored versions of those photos were filtering their way across the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

My goal was to see how these programs were filtering the nearly 3-month-old coronavirus crisis.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2020

The last drips of sunlight were filtering past the legs of pedestrians and into the basement when the pianist with eight fingers sauntered in.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2019

Worshippers from all three were filtering in, many of them older, taking their time.

From Fox News • Oct. 30, 2018

By this time several other of his assistants were filtering in and out of the small anteroom alongside the stage.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey