depict
verb (used with object)
was depicting
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past progressiveof depict.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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In “Remake,” McElwee laments the hope that making “Photographic Memory” gave him, an aspiration that he was depicting his son on the cusp of finding his way through the dark.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
But Hockney's joyful work always "comes with a bite", he adds, whether the artist was depicting gay love at a time when homosexuality was still illegal, or exploring "how we've lost our connection with nature".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Google has temporarily suspended its Gemini chatbot’s ability to generate images of people following outrage over how it was depicting race and ethnicity, such as by putting people of color in Nazi-era military uniforms.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Katz, many felt, was depicting a pretty, affluent, white world where no one is ever suffering — “that of the cover of the New Yorker magazine,” Wilson wrote, “understated and privileged.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
It had returned, but with a difference: then he had been painting the glories of the plan; now he was depicting its horrors.
From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Albert Bigelow Paine
