Example Sentences

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“You get more done when the pressure’s on,” she says, glancing at one of the dozens of text messages that have popped up on her iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

About eight months after I’d been sworn in as Vice President, I was finishing a meeting when my text messages started lighting up in group chats that included Charlie.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

More than 160 of the pages are made up of Lord Mandelson's text messages and WhatsApps.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

They also allege that the YouTuber had manipulated screenshots of text messages sent from the actress's phone to make it look like she had been texting Kim Soo-hyun.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Ever since I’d told her about the text messages, about my secret account on Scrollr and its surprise popularity, we’d had some variation of this talk about once a month.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows