appoint
verb (used with object)
to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate.
were appointing
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past progressiveof appoint.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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Police were appointing a special investigations team, Saheb told reporters, adding that strict action would be taken against those involved.
From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2023
Redfield started the job Monday, less than a week after U.S. officials announced they were appointing him the CDC director.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
The hope in summer 2016 was United were appointing the Mourinho of Real Madrid’s 2011-12 record-breaking La Liga champions or his first Chelsea side.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2018
Later Lagaillarde was summoned by two generals and a batch of colonels to a nearby barracks and told they were appointing him co-director of a Committee of National Safety.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the moment they were appointing Maurice of Nassau captain-general came the news that Leicester was returning with intolerable claims.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
