Example Sentences

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Sheriff’s deputies were photographing the scene and were set to take measurements and detail the wreckage before it was towed away.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2021

A group of friends who were photographing the monolith captured the removal last Friday night, then shared the images on Instagram.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2020

The people we were photographing introduced us to other people.”

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2015

Outside, cameramen from Russia’s tabloid news outlets were photographing Kolesnikov’s body.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 27, 2015

"Mind you," went on McPherson, laboriously anxious to make clear his point, "they could not see it when they were photographing it."

From The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play by Rae, John