were masquerading
- past progressive of masquerade.
Example Sentences
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Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, said the gunmen were masquerading as U.S.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021
Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, said the gunmen were masquerading as U.S.
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2021
Bocchit Edmond, the Haitian ambassador to the U.S., described the attackers as “well trained professional commandos” and “foreign mercenaries” who were masquerading as U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
Hudson was the first to use the hashtag, but soon a whole group of black feminists was combing through the #EndFathersDay tweets, retweeting the accounts they believed were masquerading as black women and adding #YourSlipIsShowing.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2019
It made her look over-dressed and absurd to a pitiful degree, as if she were masquerading.
From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway