officiate
verb (used without object)
to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
was officiating
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past progressiveof officiate.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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He once missed a House of Commons vote as he was officiating at a Barcelona match in the Champions League, leading one SNP MP to brandish a red card across the chamber.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022
Scott Foster was one of the referees assigned to the game; the last 11 times that Suns guard Chris Paul has played in a postseason contest that Foster was officiating, Paul’s team lost.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
Krueger was officiating a high school basketball game in Richland Center, Wisconsin, on Monday night when he collapsed and died.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
“Before, in Drolma, I was officiating as a bishop in a cathedral,” Mr. Puig said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2014
When his father was officiating at Wem in Shropshire, in Hazlitt's twentieth year, Coleridge, who at times affected the same denomination, visited the place, and Hazlitt was most powerfully impressed by him.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
