was appropriating
- past progressive of appropriate.
Example Sentences
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Its neighbor to the south, Greece, had objected for years to allowing the Balkan nation into the military alliance, asserting it was appropriating classical Greek heritage with its name.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
Q. community, “not as if Taco Bell was appropriating drag for the sake of tacos.”
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
"But he was doing the same thing he had always done, which was appropriating sounds and culture and making them his own."
From BBC ● May 25, 2022
But after protests from indigenous activists that Mr. Durant was appropriating their history, the artist dismantled his own work, and made its wood available to be burned in a Dakota Sioux ceremony.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2017
For he loved his Greek wife, and shed tears copiously over his brother's death, even while he was appropriating all the territory which had belonged to him.
From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt
