enslave
verb (used with object)
to make a slave of; hold (someone) in slavery or bondage.
were enslaving
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past progressiveof enslave.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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“That’s a whole different way of looking at work at a time when you had Southern ports which, of course, were enslaving Native Americans and African Americans.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
There were not enough women to go around, plus the Polynesian men felt the Bounty men were enslaving them.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 30, 2017
What the reference was I cannot understand unless it was to his anti-slavery essay, in which he asked Americans with what consistency they could protest against being enslaved while they were enslaving others.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
And first I will tell how the Persians, lords of Asia, were enslaving Europe, and how the children of this land, who were our fathers, held them back.
From Menexenus by Benjamin Jowett
