was sentencing

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of sentence.
  sentence

  noun

  a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.

Example Sentences

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was sentencing

Dozens of Kelsey’s friends and family packed the Nashville courtroom, where many silently cried and comforted each other as Crenshaw explained why he was sentencing Kelsey to 21 months in prison.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

Unlike pancake-flat Delft, the Washington suburb where I live is a crenelated topo of rolling hills, such that if I rode anywhere I was sentencing myself to multiple back-breaking climbs just to get home.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2023

Kidd made it clear to Pell he was sentencing him only on the basis of the offending considered by the jury and their subsequent conviction.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2019

Judge Marrero said it was sentencing people, which he described as “wrenching.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2016

The formalities of a plea having been summarily dealt with, the question now at hand was sentencing.

From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus

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