impart
verb (used with object)
were imparting
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past progressiveof impart.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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Possessed of a booming contralto, Ms. Dexter doesn’t sing lyrics so much as preach them as if she were imparting carefully chosen passages of Scripture.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2012
He dispenses fat, fuzzy thoughts on atomic scientists, moral responsibility, and the apocalyptic menace of the bomb as if he were imparting profound revelations rather than portentous bromides.
From Time Magazine Archive
Colonel Fennister and Major Grodski sat at the table in the lab, munching on banana-pears, blissfully enjoying the sweet flavor and the feeling of fullness they were imparting to their stomachs.
From Cum Grano Salis by Randall Garrett
His eyes were a little feverish—as they had been of late—and his voice held a continuous intensity—as though he were imparting a secret.
From The Stowaway by Alvin Heiner
They forgot the messages they were imparting to the dead.
From The Eternal Maiden by T. Everett Harré
