monopolize
verb (used with object)
to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
were monopolizing
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past progressiveof monopolize.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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At a time when Americans were monopolizing London taxis, Giles cartooned an American plane which had just crashed into a German house.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two ladies were sitting on the bench that leaned against the wall of the hospital, and these three men were monopolizing the conversation with them, because the fourth man sat on his bench without speaking.
From Men in War by Andreas Latzko
They had to slow up the Striped Beetle along the road for a cow and a calf that were monopolizing the right of way and Hinpoha decided to take a picture of them.
From The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
Italy had not yet intervened in the war, but her defensive precautions were monopolizing all naval industries.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Also the Buddha was a Kshattriya; so the ancient eminence of the Kshattriyas had to be obscured a little;—it was the Brahmans, by that time, who were monopolizing the teaching office.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
