was assenting
- past progressive of assent.
Example Sentences
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Apparently she was urging him to some course of action, and the doctor, with his hands under his coattails, was assenting with a poor grace.
From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.
And now, after that announcement, he was assenting to her proposal that they should go out and amuse themselves together.
From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony
The doctor was assenting perfunctorily to his friend's animated harangue.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell
"Yes," said Hetty abstractedly, for her mind had been all the while in the wood, and she would have found it difficult to say what she was assenting to.
From Adam Bede by Eliot, George
His mind recognized how logical the issue was, assenting wearily as to a problem proved.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
