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Example Sentences

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She’d begun painting only months earlier, after being injured in a traffic accident that maimed her for life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Four schools in the area were placed into precautionary lockdowns while the incident unfolded but have since begun to allow pupils to return home.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Department of Transportation have begun exploring replacing the existing funding structure with a simpler VMT tax that better aligns use with costs and better approximates the real price of roads.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Six months later, 81 had obtained building permits and construction had begun on 30 of those.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

“It seems I may have begun to perspire. Can you imagine such a thing?”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood