consent
verb (used without object)
to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive).
were consenting
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past progressiveof consent.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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“There’s lots of different actors who would want this data for a lot of different purposes, far beyond what you probably thought you were consenting to when you were just interested in genealogy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2025
And it’s important to understand that this new standard also protects men – men who may have thought their partners were consenting and genuinely shocked to learn otherwise.
From Time ● Oct. 1, 2014
I decided early on that since they were consenting adults, and kept this well away from their three kids and out of the house, it wasn't my place to judge.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2012
All this happened to the indescribable sorrow of good men, though to the satisfaction of those who, either from ignorance or malignity, were consenting parties.
From History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy by Niccolò Machiavelli
For the earth opened and swallowed them up, and so many of the people of Teamhrach as were consenting thereto; and the abyss opened its mouth and devoured them, even alive.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
