officiate
verb (used without object)
to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
were officiating
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past progressiveof officiate.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 ICC also announced equal pay for female match officials regardless of whether they were officiating men’s or women’s games.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Both were officiating colleagues and friends to Deschaine.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2016
In event after event, there were officiating blunders that demonstrated incompetence, and sometimes outright bias.
From Time Magazine Archive
The clerk who had rescued Petya was talking to a functionary about the priests who were officiating that day with the bishop.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
It must be borne in mind that the Jesuits had embarked in commercial enterprises, while they were officiating as missionaries.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
