appoint
verb (used with object)
to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate.
was appointing
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past progressiveof appoint.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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After a warm greeting, he told me that Pope Leo XIV was appointing me archbishop of New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
One of her first steps on Monday was appointing 30-year CBS News veteran Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews to lead the news division.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Howard, one of the nation’s top historically Black colleges, said it was appointing Abrams as the Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics beginning in September.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
The company said it was appointing administrators in an attempt to raise funds so it could make the payments.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2023
His voice grew lower, and from what else he said I but caught the words, "Cesena" and "to-morrow night," from which I gathered that he was appointing that as their next meeting-place.
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael
