designate
verb (used with object)
to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
was designating
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past progressiveof designate.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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Army’s 10th Mountain Division, Mr. Biden said he was designating 53,804 acres of rugged landscape the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
The Warsaw city government announced this month, with some fanfare, that it was designating a derelict and longtime legally contested Russian compound on the city’s southern outskirts for use by Ukrainian refugees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
During the White House event, which was centered around the coronavirus pandemic, Trump announced that he was designating the month of May as Older Americans Month.
From Fox News ● Apr. 30, 2020
About that time, Scott — otherwise known as He Who Would Move Mountains — was designating Mike Pereira to do a four-month study of Pac-10 football officials, everything from training to general league practices.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2011
"Do you mean, then," said Rendel, "that—that—you are really anxious about the ultimate issue?" and he tried to veil the thing he was designating, as men instinctively do when it is near at hand.
From The Arbiter A Novel by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell
