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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Winter said it was an "extremely curious feature" of the case that Brand "obviously genuinely believed that they were consenting because that's the only thing that would explain why his behaviour was normal."
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
“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
Then the fiscal asked, if the English in the other factories were consenting to this plot?
