prevail
verb (used without object)
to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally.
were prevailing
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past progressiveof prevail.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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“We were prevailing over the virus,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2022
President Obama, in an interview on 60 Minutes, indicated that cooler heads were prevailing.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in that particular part of the human race en route into which fate had flung Susan Lenox conditions not of savagery but of primitive chaos were prevailing.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
Many stories were told among the villagers about Henry Schulte, for, like most all other localities, gossip and scandal were prevailing topics of conversation.
From Bucholz and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
Sea-level pressures were prevailing where the barometric column would once have dropped almost to the bottom of its tube.
From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss
