appropriate
adjective
suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc..
were appropriating
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past progressiveof appropriate.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 OED traced the origin of woke’s newer definition to a 1962 New York Times article by Black author William Melvin Kelley describing how white beatniks were appropriating Black slang at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
No matter how goodhearted the sisters, they argued, they were appropriating the victims’ sacred memory.
From Newsweek ● Aug. 8, 2010
For from the moment of his appearance he took the reins of government, as it were, appropriating the pulpit and launching his bolts therefrom, with the full consent and encouragement of the other.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
They were appropriating chairs which would place the plumes of their hats within a few inches of his feet.
From The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy
In the twelfth century the ecclesiastical forces were appropriating to their use whatever secular rights and possessions came within their grasp.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
