Example Sentences

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We told the boys that we were storing things for just 12 months and that if they didn’t retrieve their treasures in that time, then they weren’t treasures and would be tossed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

The observation, as well as other experiments, confirmed the team's hypothesis that T cells were storing lipids instead of breaking them down.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024

“We knew that was a fire hazard the way they were storing materials.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 11, 2023

The FBI’s justification for the undisclosed wholesale forfeiture was its assumption that all the customers, who rented their boxes anonymously, were storing assets somehow tied to unknown crimes, court records show.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022

They were storing all the fragile pieces in the cellars, including the harpsichord.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan