was subduing
- past progressive of subdue.
Example Sentences
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Remember Jemel Roberson, the armed Illinois security guard who was subduing a gun-wielding assailant — and wearing a hat that said “SECURITY” — when police arrived?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2018
While he was besieging Elatea his brother Lucius Flamininus in company with Attalus and the Rhodians was subduing the islands.
Caesar was at this time engaged with many warlike nations, and was subduing them at great hazards.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
You forget," answered Dolly, with a flash of her old spirit, which he was subduing too heavily, "that a matter of that sort depends upon us, and our father, and not upon the gentlemen.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
Then Guy began to talk of how day by day he was subduing words to rhyme and meter.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
