Example Sentences

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He called the younger Chrisley, who also starred in “Chrisley Knows Best,” “to inform her that he will be granting full pardons to her parents.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

District Judge Timothy Kelly also said he will be granting a request by the government to postpone the trial date, and added that he will release a written ruling later in the day.

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022

“I think with that paper, ethics committees throughout the world will be granting clinical studies,” he says.

From Nature • Mar. 20, 2019

Though Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban is technically still in place, two clerks will be granting marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples in the Centennial State.

From MSNBC • Jul. 10, 2014

The one compulsion a government will use if it has a soul, will be granting charters in business in such a way as to fix definite responsibility and definite publicity upon a few men.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley