were acclaiming
- past progressive of acclaim.
Example Sentences
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While South African Boy Scouts were acclaiming me at Johannesburg, Transvaal, last week, as the founder of their movement, I collapsed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nonetheless, while they were acclaiming Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Discovery the horse of the year, Top Row went quietly about the business of winning races.
From Time Magazine Archive
His intrinsic beauty and power meant nothing to the hundreds of thousands who were acclaiming him and buying his books.
From Martin Eden by London, Jack
It was as though the still distant future were acclaiming the young ones now advancing to the assault, and promising them sympathy and conquest.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
All were acclaiming and praising him, and he passed up the great hall and made a reverence to the King, and he sat down at the King's footstool.
From The Coming of Cuculain by O'Grady, Standish
