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
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
That night at the supper-table Cavanaugh took his wife into his confidence and told her of the love-affair which was culminating in such a satisfactory way to him as well as to John.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
Yet he held the throne for nearly fifty years; a time in which art was culminating and affairs advancing through splendor and unwisdom to a downfall.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
