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Example Sentences

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“The company is trying to erase any semblance of the way that it used to be,” the worker said.

From Los Angeles Times

María was among the locals sweeping up the ashes and trying to scrub burn marks from the streets and buildings when The Times visited Etzatlán in the days after El Mencho’s death.

From Los Angeles Times

“I was trying to be someone else because I really wasn’t comfortable with myself.”

From Los Angeles Times

I would not want to have had Matt’s job because that’s a really heavy load to bear, trying to finish this out.

From Los Angeles Times

“There were so many sitcoms being aired at one time, and they were all trying to be the thing that people talked about,” Anderson says, adding that today’s media landscape is more fragmented.

From Los Angeles Times