inaugurate
verb (used with object)
were inaugurating
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past progressiveof inaugurate.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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“No one had ever heard of her or her husband at the time. But a year later we were inaugurating him, and she was our first lady.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2019
Last week, the Nobel-winning physicist came to Stevens Institute of Technology, where I teach—and where we were inaugurating a new president—and gave a spirited defense of federal investment in research and development.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2011
These volunteer watchers were inaugurating the biggest rehearsal for air-raid defense ever undertaken in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never was the name of reason more grievously abused than by those who believed they were inaugurating her reign.
From A History of Freedom of Thought by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
We were inaugurating a new investigation, when Mr. Murdaugh died very suddenly.
From The Fifth Ace by George W. Gage
