inoculate
verb (used with object)
to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
were inoculating
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past progressiveof inoculate.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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I knew, as many historians knew before me, that free and enslaved West Africans on both sides of the Atlantic were inoculating against disease before the early 18th century.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023
One of the unique elements of the inoculation we tested in our study is that we never actually mentioned the myth that we were inoculating against.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2017
Back in Kansas last spring we had heard a story to the effect that the Germans were inoculating the French and Belgians behind the lines of the allies with tubercular bacteria.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by White, William Allen
