were admiring
- past progressive of admire.
Example Sentences
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It was not long ago that fans and pundits were admiring the power of the Premier League.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Reviews were admiring, but not over the moon.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022
A few nights later, while Maslova and her family were admiring a stack of toys that their hosts brought for the children, Albagir and three men with whom he was traveling were arrested.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
A minute later, they were admiring it in a three-way mirror.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
Sometimes they’d watch me spin with a kind of awe, and I almost thought they were admiring me, but their eyes were only on the gold.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
