ordering

Example Sentences

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Beijing retaliated by forbidding Chinese companies from ordering Boeing jets -- or receiving those already ordered.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

The opinion explicitly stops short of ordering the government to pay out the canceled funds or resolving any individual grantee’s contractual claims.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

For months, Wall Street had speculated that China would order about 500 aircraft from Boeing, after nearly a decade of not ordering any.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

"Initially it was a novelty, so we were ordering everything under the sun," he says.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

We went from playing Super Smash Bros. and ordering pizza to meeting my dead grandmother, being chased by a River God, fighting trolls, coming face-to-face with Bulgu, destroying a building, and slaying a sea serpent.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer