enumerate
verb (used with object)
to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list.
was enumerating
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past progressiveof enumerate.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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Just now I was enumerating the lords, and I ought to add to the list two archbishops and twenty-four bishops.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
While this fellow was enumerating the Universalists in neighboring towns who had turned from their errors on their death-beds, some one exclaimed, "John Hodges! why, he isn't dead,—he's alive and well."
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Baretti and these two spent the evening with me, and I was enumerating the people who were to meet the Indian ambassadors on the Wednesday.
From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Hester Lynch Piozzi
I was enumerating for my own convenience," he said, "as I frequently do, to see if I cannot discover one new variety.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
When the relations of the bride troop in, we recognize the fact that they, too, have a theme; we learned it when Goro, some time back, was enumerating the expected guests.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
