acclaim
verb (used with object)
to welcome or salute with shouts or sounds of joy and approval; applaud.
were acclaiming
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past progressiveof acclaim.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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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
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
He had rushed to the Cæsar trying to protect him, when thousands on thousands of throats were acclaiming his name as future lord of Rome.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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 Standish O'Grady
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 Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
