was heightening
- past progressive of heighten.
Example Sentences
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When even that began to fade from view, this season's sense of crisis was heightening.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025
Countries in the region are being forced to finance their navies beyond what is needed for self-defense, he said, implying that this was heightening the risk of an arms race.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2015
Or perhaps, knowing his people, he was heightening his effect.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was heightening picture for artistic effect, no doubt; but he was drawing with his eye on the object.
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 Morris, Kenneth
He was heightening and extending the renown of Englishmen, upholding and increasing their reputation in the eyes of foreigners, and teaching lessons of greatness and of justice to the labouring millions of other nations.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)
