actuate
verb (used with object)
was actuating
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past progressiveof actuate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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By that she meant that there was something more than that lack of sympathy with the man she had promised to marry that was actuating Mrs. Lancing in all her movements now.
From Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands
King Philip was fighting for precisely the same object that was actuating the colonists in their battle with King Charles.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Julian Hawthorne
Was it fear of the strange sight that was actuating the beast?
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Bertram Mitford
She never for a moment imagined that any thing but an abstract and ideal scheme for benefiting Bressant was actuating her in her intercourse with him.
From Bressant by Julian Hawthorne
She plainly shared Latisan’s amazement, but there was in her demeanor something more than the frank astonishment which was actuating him.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
