permit
verb (used with object)
to allow to do something.
were permitting
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past progressiveof permit.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 investors and banks called their actions reasonable first steps in dealing with delinquent borrowers and in line with what the federal agencies were permitting.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
Government that France would not go beyond her Armistice commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slightly firmer commodity prices were permitting inventories to be marked at satisfactory figures, while production in iron and steel, as well as in other basic industries, continued to advance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week's strange news that the Finns were permitting German troops passage to Norway did not ease nervousness about the North.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were permitting all that they had as being living.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
