Example Sentences

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Boyington told Weinberg, "Shooters don't make no money. I left because I don't even think we were topping $500 a day."

From Salon • May 13, 2022

Economic growth estimates for the October-December quarter were topping a 7.0% annualized rate before the retail sales data.

From Reuters • Jan. 14, 2022

Several more states were topping 90% of their total 2016 vote.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2020

When Kazuo Ishiguro took the most recent prize in 2017, Thiong’o and Murakami were topping the odds – as they were when Bob Dylan won in 2016.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019

By that time the travelers were topping a slight rise in the floor of the valley, and we could see that they were horsemen, perhaps thirty or forty in all.

From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson