Example Sentences

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“We were running our sets. We were screening well. Guys were getting shots that we had gotten the first couple of games in the season,” Davis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

Marines, a sailor and a soldier, who were screening the thousands of Afghans frantically trying to get onto one of the crowded flights leaving the country after the Taliban takeover.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2022

In September, a Washington Post survey found just four of the nation’s 20 largest school districts were screening asymptomatic students, who can infect others even though they have no symptoms.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

My partner John DeLuca and I were screening “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” at the Cannes Film Festival and Johnny Depp warned us that the French sometimes “boo”—so we were prepared.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2018

From what passed between you, I gathered that Miles was a blackleg of some kind, whom you were screening from the police.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)