object
noun
anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
were objecting
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past progressiveof object.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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They were objecting to a major overhaul of farm subsidies, branded "unworkable" by unions.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024
“There used to be a roughly one-to-one ratio, where a parent would complain about an individual book, like in the days when many were objecting to Harry Potter,” Caldwell-Stone says.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
The Japanese people, Professor Nakano said, believe that the Games would be reconsidered more seriously if the host city were London or Paris and the local residents were objecting as strenuously.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
“We thought it was a banzai attack but parrots had moved in on us. They were objecting to us being there. There were hundreds of them.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2020
But it suddenly dawned on Roosevelt that the owners were objecting not to the thing but to the name.
From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland
