consummate
verb (used with object)
to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
was consummating
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past progressiveof consummate.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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Kitty is a beauty, and doesn't need to be made 'purty wid cows'—a feat that the old Irishman proposed to do when he was consummating a match for his plain daughter.
From Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
It is the concentration by the Union of interstate and international commerce in her great city, that was consummating its imperial destiny.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
She really thought she was consummating a grand act of self-denial, and wept a few pitiful tears over her own hard lot.
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The ascending curve cut through the tail of the descending one; and I was consummating my collapse and rising for my next flight simultaneously.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
