Example Sentences

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Enumerating the principles she’s picked up throughout her life, the former First Lady focuses on building interpersonal relationships.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2022

Enumerating the problems with Lee’s script and characters could gobble up this entire piece, but I’d be missing the forest for the trees.

From The Verge • Oct. 3, 2015

Enumerating his Christmas wish list, he fired off, “I want Mama Cass’s sandwich receipt and Sylvia Plath’s gas and electric bill.”

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2013

Enumerating what those losses could be, Congress listed psychiatric care, lost income and legal costs and concluded, “The issuance of a restitution order under this section is mandatory.”

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013

Enumerating these challenges to Jim Crow doesn’t prove that either Ann Atwater or Durham, North Carolina, was unique in this regard; they were not.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson