Example Sentences

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Some perspective: One year ago, new jobless claims were numbering 670,000 per week.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2010

Girls of ten to twelve were numbering and naming the bridges of Berlin, as I entered, and the recitation continued for some time on the topography and boundaries of their own city.

From In and Around Berlin by Norton, Minerva Brace

A strange dog was seen one night passing in and out the various camps into the officers' tents and out again as if he were numbering the men.

From From Bull Run to Appomattox by Hopkins, Luther W.