appraise
verb (used with object)
to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess.
were appraising
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past progressiveof appraise.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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The subject is their father, sporting a pencil-thin mustache, his eyebrows cocked, as if he were appraising the carnitas coming out of the kitchen.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
The directors were appraising all the availables in Europe when they came upon a Russian exiled in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
The girls were appraising her costume; she felt their eyes and enjoyed the envy in them.
From The Town Traveller by George Gissing
And she looked at the parson over her glasses as if she were appraising him in a new character.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
Presently he wheeled from the desk and regarded her with disconcerting frankness—as if he were appraising her, point by point, so to speak.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
