was assimilating
- past progressive of assimilate.
Example Sentences
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If being accepted and belonging was assimilating, I was having none of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
His brother Eli worried that Kargbo was assimilating the worst part of American culture.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2015
Neither man quite understood the power of that mental culture which Johnnie was assimilating so avidly.
From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
She was assimilating her new frocks, as she had already assimilated so many other things, during her weeks at the villa—points of manner, of speech, of mental perspective.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
At the same time, she was astonished at the avidity with which she was assimilating these hitherto unsuspected mysteries.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
