Example Sentences

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Back then, if you didn’t like what you were watching, you switched the channel.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

More than one million people were watching the test on Thursday ahead of the scrub.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

People were fast forwarding through all the commercials because they were watching it on TiVo.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Ask yourself when you’ve been happiest together—maybe when you were watching sports and ordering pizza, or wandering city streets and discovering eateries frequented by taxi drivers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

At the edge of the field a bunch of kids their age were watching.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman