was acclaiming
- past progressive of acclaim.
Example Sentences
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Even while England was acclaiming Ruskin the critic, Ruskin the man was under the total domination of a doting, querulous father and a mother who flattered and fondled her son.
From Time Magazine Archive
But nowadays people no longer laughed at him; upstairs the giant roar of Paris was acclaiming Fagerolles!
From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
