disagree
verb (used without object)
to fail to agree; differ.
were disagreeing
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past progressiveof disagree.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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"In the '60s, for the first time, Americans were suspecting the government of lying and were disagreeing with institutions on issues like birth control," Belzer wrote in "How to be a Stand-Up Comic."
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2023
It wasn’t clear that they were disagreeing about who they thought should win so much as conceding the difficulty of predicting how the judges would turn their subjective feelings into numbers.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2018
“Darcus talked a lot about how people were disagreeing with each other, even as everybody was coming together under the umbrella ‘people of colour’,” says Ridley.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2017
Seventy-five years old, with the cheerful look and vocal rasp of Santa Claus in some Rankin/Bass animation, he speculates that the dogs staying with him were disagreeing with the dog staying with me.
From Slate ● May 6, 2013
It looked to me like they were disagreeing about something.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
