institute
verb (used with object)
were instituting
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past progressiveof institute.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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The organization announced in September, after SMU’s first semester had begun, that they were instituting a postseason ban.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2016
"Come with me," Burnett ordered, "I want you to meet some people." e sounded as if he were instituting military discipline but Hart, still dazed, willingly followed.
From The Junkmakers by Albert Teichner
The ex-sheriff's family were instituting proceedings independent of the Chief's orders.
From The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck
It is just as true that the struggle for autonomy which the Greeks were instituting attracted sympathy in America and added to the conviction that a world struggle was imminent between monarchy and republicanism.
From The United States of America, Part 1 by Edwin Erle Sparks
And the social game they were instituting in Chicago was so emptily imitative, an echo of an echo!
From The Web of Life by Robert Herrick
