convict
verb (used with object)
to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial.
were convicting
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past progressiveof convict.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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So when she was convicted and sentenced to 26 years, they were convicting not her but her “doppelganger,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2017
It must be said that at that particular moment Ogla-Moga’s nostrils were convicting him of a genius for music of a most discordant kind.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various
