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
Some of these officials—notably the secretaries of the Board of Foreign Missions— had been attacked on the grounds that they were permitting unorthodox Presbyterians to serve as missionaries.
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
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
The fact that they were permitting him to ride out alive was a wordless assurance of that.
From The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck
