heighten
verb (used with object)
was heightening
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past progressiveof heighten.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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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
Constable's 'Waterloo' seemed as if painted with liquid gold and silver, and Turner came several times into the room while he was heightening with vermilion and lake the decorations and flags of the city barges.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
It was well that Mrs. Dangerfield kept Captain Baster waiting; it gave the purple tinge, which was heightening his floridness somewhat painfully, time to fade.
From The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson
