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
I experienced a feeling of humiliation; a most lively consciousness of my deficiencies, so that I seemed bowed to the very earth at the moment others were elevating me.
From True Story of My Life by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
