elect
verb (used with object)
to choose or select by vote, as for an office.
were electing
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past progressiveof elect.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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Voters also were electing 137 members of the national assembly.
From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2023
And soon they were electing people to Congress carrying their message.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were electing, eliciting, intelligence, neglecting and telegenic.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2022
Voters were electing lawmakers to the country’s 199-seat parliament.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2022
Academies of science, at home and abroad, were electing him to membership.
From The Gist of Swedenborg by Julian K. Smyth
