execute
verb (used with object)
to carry out; accomplish.
were executing
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past progressiveof execute.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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Trump said the FBI and Secret Service were executing search warrants at a California address.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
Law-enforcement officers were executing warrants at several locations across the country to gather more information on the attack, Pirro said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Badillo was arrested Thursday, the same day that FBI agents were executing several search warrants in San Francisco, including at one of the towing yards operated by Badillo and his wife, Abigail T. Fuentes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
“They were executing late and we didn’t,” Booker said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
While still a youth he painted the figure of Fortitude among those pictures of the virtues which Antonio and Pietro Pollaiuolo were executing in the Mercatanzia or Tribunal of Commerce in Florence.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies
