putting on

Example Sentences

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I think AI and the pressure that it’s putting on young people makes the sort of extended dependence on families—that has been going on for a couple of decades now—in some ways more explicit.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

They could just be putting on a show for the cameras, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Porlock historian Jeff Cox, who is putting on the exhibition, said Porlock Weir is the longest natural barrier of its kind in the whole of the west coast of Britain.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

"I have girls as young as 20 years old walking in, coming in from college, and putting on a fox jacket," Cowit told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Francis had given my clothes to Mrs. Hatch to be laundered; putting on a bathrobe he’d lent me, I went downstairs to sit on the porch for a few minutes before the others woke up.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt