Example Sentences

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Zilly and I were minding our own business, waiting for a friend at the park, when we were suddenly swarmed by ice-cream-eating 5-year-olds.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2018

It helped pass the time, he said, when they were minding the family cows.

From National Geographic • Apr. 18, 2018

At the age I was studying Hard Times and Great Expectations they were minding looms; "mill girls," they were called, even when they had left girlhood behind.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012

So well dressed, in fact, that the other day he breezed right past several people who were minding the door of Soho House, where he is not a member.

From New York Times • May 17, 2012

Well, at least as much as we were minding everyone else's.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon