Example Sentences

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At times Friday, it felt as if the mechanics of our entertainment culture were governing our responses.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

Where a normal elected official might feel obliged to stick around the place they were governing, Bloomberg as mayor had a habit of going missing from the city.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2020

Somewhere in the background, while Jimmy McGill was turning into Saul Goodman, you were governing New Mexico.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2018

The Baltic states had revolted against Soviet power; their own national authorities were governing in parallel with Moscow.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2017

And he acted indeed as though he were governing a Russian province.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)