Example Sentences

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By the end of this week, more than 70% of large U.S. companies will have reported quarterly results and it’s shaping up to be the best season in years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

If the virus continues to spread at the current rate, Liberia and Sierra Leone alone will have reported about 550,000 Ebola cases by 20 January, the authors write.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 23, 2014

The balloon will have been tracked all along its flight, and its instruments will have reported faithfully by radio.

From Time Magazine Archive

M. de Mercy will have reported to you the quietness and gentleness with which this minister has spoken to him.

From The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Yonge, Charles Duke

I recommend to your care, sir, the petition of the French, which Commodore Troubridge will have reported to you in my name.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir