elevate
verb (used with object)
to move or raise to a higher place or position; lift up.
were elevating
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past progressiveof elevate.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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“They were elevating me. I was not alone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
Brown and Donald believed they were elevating this trend in aligning with Ye.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
And a few were elevating women to positions of power — administrative, not spiritual — in their dioceses, she said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2015
It told people that we were elevating our game, not by throwing on a bigger chain, but by showing more refined, and even slightly obscure, taste.
From Time ● Nov. 19, 2010
It has been advocated that the superstitions of the Highlanders, on the whole, were elevating and ennobling, which plea cannot well be sustained.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
