personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
was personating
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past progressiveof personate.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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His general sense that she was personating had its especial moments of suspense and perplexity, and added variety and even occasionally a degree of excitement to their commerce.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
He acts exactly as a man would act who was personating some one else.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore
But John was personating Jeffrey and was made up to resemble him very closely.
From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
As the nine-pounders advanced towards him, and rolled about in all directions, he was compelled to display an activity in avoiding them, singularly inappropriate to the age and condition of the character he was personating.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat.
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1. by Mark Twain
