memorialize
verb (used with object)
to commemorate.
were memorializing
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past progressiveof memorialize.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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Women younger than me were memorializing Shulamith Firestone and fawning over Chris Kraus’s “I Love Dick.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019
This time we were memorializing Linda, Jim’s beloved wife of fifty-six years, at their casita in Patagonia, in Arizona near the Mexican border town Nogales.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2017
