dispose
verb (used with object)
to give a tendency or inclination to; incline.
was disposing
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past progressiveof dispose.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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I felt that if I sold or threw them away I was disposing of my mother and her mother, and their significance in my life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
American Motors had no way of knowing that Wolfson was disposing of his stock,* said Romney, who praised the SEC's action.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 7th district Gerald Boileau beat Congressman Merlin Hull for renomination while in the 8th district Gardiner Withrow was disposing of Edward Everts Browne, a Congressman since 1913.
From Time Magazine Archive
Signor Marina had already arrived with a truck and was disposing the paraphernalia about the laboratory.
From The Silent Bullet by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
Then he would be ashamed of thinking thus only of himself, and his own sufferings would seem to deserve no pity now that he himself was disposing so cheaply of Odette's very life.
From Swann's Way by Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
