were compensating
- past progressive of compensate.
Example Sentences
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Somehow, the study’s authors realized, the active tribespeople’s bodies were compensating, dialing back overall calorie burning, so that they avoided starvation as they stalked their food.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Maybe these players were compensating for the silence that they had just escaped.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2018
And if the result was sometimes calamitous or pitiable, there were compensating gains; a matter-of-fact prosperity is not altogether preferable to enlistment in the forlorn hope of idealism.
From Medieval Europe by Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)
In Spain St. Teresa and the great mystical writers were compensating for the triviality and worse of the picaresque romances and the tales of chivalry.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
I knew I was wasting your time by letting you love me, and hampering your projects; but I thought there were compensating advantages.
From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas
