enunciate
verb (used with object)
to utter or pronounce (words, sentences, etc.), especially in an articulate or a particular manner.
were enunciating
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past progressiveof enunciate.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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"Does a man go into bankruptcy for less?" replied Cerizet, as though he were enunciating a maxim.
From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac
"You remind me, madam," said he, in a slow, deliberate voice, as though he were enunciating some long-resolved sentiment,—"you remind me much of Josephine."
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
As late as when the Puritans were enunciating their lofty principles, it was generally held that the king's touch would cure scrofula.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
"Labour is prayer," remarked his father, as if he were enunciating something strikingly original.
From At Love's Cost by Charles Garvice
For while these grand moguls of their sciences were enunciating their dogmas, pioneers here and there were already setting the mines that were to explode them.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
