Example Sentences

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After yesterday’s tumbles, European traders will have approached their desks nervously today.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2018

In a country where Our Lady of Guadalupe remains a powerful figure, cooperation is not certain; the population total by the year 2000 will have approached an unmanageable 115 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

A country must, however, have reached a high degree of civilization before it will have approached the limit of this economy.

From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Babbage, Charles

Let two points be fixed, one near the summit, the other near the base of the obelisk; next year these points will have approached each other.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John