were overshadowing
- past progressive of overshadow.
Example Sentences
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Provincial elections in Quebec, a center of the Canadian dairy industry, also were overshadowing the talks.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
Two of the visitor youths were strongly infected by the new teachings which were overshadowing the outlook of British Imperialism.
From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Like a towering thunder-cloud that casts its sickly green over all about, so these unknown influences were overshadowing all the lives around him.
From The Wilderness Trail by Williams, Frank
The same paralysis of voice and muscle, the same strange force, as if it were overshadowing me.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
There can be little doubt that the two illustrious scholars suffered for their fame rather than for their faults, and that their chief offences were overshadowing renown and independence of Fujiwara patronage.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
