culminate
verb (used without object)
to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development (usually followed by in).
was culminating
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past progressiveof culminate.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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It was culminating Friday at 5 a.m. when he sent those tweets.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2016
Paul Robinson was confused by people telling him how good his violently punted "distribution" was, culminating in a career-defining fresh-air hack in Zagreb.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010
It needed strong and noble men to guide her through the period of unrest which even at that moment was culminating in the French Revolution.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Noon was culminating, and the less excitable and more worldly portion of the company began to be thinking seriously of the bountiful refection which had been provided for the grand occasion.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various
The Chartist agitation was culminating in the presentation of the great petition to Parliament, and half a million men were to escort it from Kennington to Westminster.
From Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by James Richard Joy
