saturate
verb (used with object)
to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
was saturating
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past progressiveof saturate.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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Faster than you could say “candy cane,” I was saturating every squirrel-trafficked inch of our backyard using a spray bottle filled with 100% peppermint essential oil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2024
Earlier this year, Mr. Cuban, the maverick owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said that the N.F.L. was saturating the airwaves and the Internet and in danger of crumbling in a decade.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2014
By the end, Mr. Markey was saturating the airwaves with commercials.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2013
He had taken up Persian and was saturating himself with Hafiz and Firdusi.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John
Nor had the mist to do with the rain which was saturating the world about her.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell
