Example Sentences

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“We knew we were going to surprise a lot of people,” defender Marcelo Balboa added, “if we got out of the group.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Moore acknowledged similarities, but said, “That’s not what we were going for.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

The second was that some were going from legitimate disagreement with the Israeli government to anti-Semitism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

We knew we were going to be pursuing this transaction but it took a few months longer to sign the transaction than we thought.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

“I was beginning to think you were going to sleep all day.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls