perceive
verb (used with object)
to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses.
was perceiving
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past progressiveof perceive.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 was perceiving these dreams not as dreams but as memories,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2022
Victoria Shestack Aronoff in Maplewood, New Jersey, said that the hardest part was how she was perceiving their change in circumstances.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
"These weren't one-time messages. He would repeatedly text what he was perceiving to his mother, who sometimes would not respond for hours."
From Fox News ● Jan. 7, 2022
“I’m growing to accept my needs for a partner, something that I was perceiving as a weakness in the past,” she says.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2020
He tried, to show his sense of it all by grimly pursuing his food and refusing even the ghost of a chuckle, but no one was perceiving him, as he very bitterly saw.
From The Cathedral by Sir Hugh Walpole
