Example Sentences

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This year’s festival opened Tuesday under gray skies, as if nature itself were mirroring all the gloom and doom.

From New York Times • May 18, 2024

Horton added that the past year saw record-high global average temperatures and the heat waves in Southeast Asia were mirroring that trend, adding that “it is only going to get worse.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

The Essenes, an ascetic sect of desert dwellers who lived around the time of Jesus, believed that when they sang in unison on the Sabbath, they were mirroring the songs of the angels in heaven.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2012

The water was strangely grey, as though it were mirroring in its oval the uncertain sky above: a dull-white sky in which hung dirty shreds of clouds blown asunder.

From Majesty A Novel by Couperus, Louis