crown
noun
any of various types of headgear worn by a monarch as a symbol of sovereignty, often made of precious metal and ornamented with valuable gems.
were crowning
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past progressiveof crown.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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Their album “Random Access Memories” and its smash single “Get Lucky” were crowning achievements in a career of immaculately produced dance music, played at pop-star scale.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2021
For many, Isaac Newton’s laws of universal order were crowning achievements of this movement.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015
The Miocene was the mammalian Golden Age and there were crowning examples of what Osborn calls "adaptive radiation."
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
The church, the sovereign, and the oligarchy, were crowning themselves for the sacrifice.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
The Germans were crowning their new emperor at Versailles, and surrounding his head with a halo of Pepins and Merwigs, Othos and Barbarossas.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
