How to Use the way things are going in a Sentence
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Then again, given the way things are going, the guy might drop it.
—Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2021
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There are signs that investors aren’t happy about the way things are going.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
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But that doesn’t mean that this is a fait accompli that this is the way things are going to be.
—Joseph R. Biden, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2018
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In the end, neither the former owners nor the current ones have complaints about the way things are going.
—Anne Kadet, WSJ, 27 July 2022
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And seven in 10 are unhappy with the way things are going in the country.
—Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
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Flores is unlikely to get a job with the way things are going in the NFL.
—Brandon Tensley, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
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All in all, the way things are going, the Rockets likely won’t even have to try to continue losing.
—Rahat Huq, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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The world gave me plenty of reasons to exercise my frustration with the way things are going in this country.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 29 June 2020
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In short, a large and growing pool of voters is unhappy with the way things are going in Wisconsin.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
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Heck, the way things are going this season, Alabama may not even need to win that game to get in the Playoff.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2021
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Is there an articulate person among the group who are upset with the way things are going that could step up to a microphone and speak for all the people?
—Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2020
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But the way things are going, the biggest challenge facing the Bulldogs might be overconfidence.
—Paul Newberry, ajc, 19 Sep. 2022
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At the moment, a large majority of Americans are not happy about the way things are going overall.
—Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
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Florida State is on tap in November, though the way things are going for the Seminoles a win might not provide much, if any, help.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
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Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going hit a nine-year low, Gallup recently reported.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020
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Relatedly, 79% were dissatisfied or even angry with the way things are going in the country today.
—Gary Langer, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024
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Chad Brown, the trainer of Zandon, seems really confident and really happy with the way things are going.
—J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2022
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There is discontent with the state of the country — roughly 7 in 10 are dissatisfied or angry about the way things are going — something that has long been the case.
—Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Still, the way things are going, Bevacqua seems confident Freeman is in an enviable position.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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The poll found 74% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country, while 24% are satisfied.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
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Only 1 in 4 adults believed large businesses have a positive effect on the way things are going in the country, down from 36% just three years earlier, the poll showed.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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On the other hand, the way things are going, which is effectively to force investors to put their money to work in, financially, a sub-optimal way is, to borrow a word from the woke, problematic.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 July 2021
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Because there are more policy issues than aspects of life issues measured, this means that, on average, Americans are less satisfied with the way things are going than at any point in the last two decades.
—Harry Enten, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
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Even a new poll by the pro-Trump Fox News network found that 64% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country.
—Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
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But there’s been noteworthy slippage in public attitudes about whether colleges and universities are having a positive or negative effect on the way things are going in the country.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 25 May 2021
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Gallup polls in May found that 39% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing and 18% are satisfied with the way things are going in the country.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 15 June 2023
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This year’s speechwriters had to balance the president’s desire to point out his administration’s successes with voters’ negative sentiment about the way things are going.
—Mary Kate Cary, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023
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Further, most voters surveyed have a favorable or neutral view of the way things are going in the city compared to five years ago, with half of the 32% who responded that things were going worse citing the cost of living as the main reason.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 6 May 2024
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And South Carolina Republican primary voters are also dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country overall and rate the nation's economy negatively, according to early exit polls.
—Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024
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