were pronouncing
- past progressive of pronounce.
Example Sentences
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Cultural references roll off characters' tongues like they were pronouncing their "rr's."
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023
He decried the murdered demonstrators at Kent State and once said, “I’m not interested in victims,” as if he were pronouncing an irrefutable mathematical theorem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
At our first stop, we learned, among other things, that we were pronouncing Newfoundland wrong.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016
Admit it: you were pronouncing the word “Smaug” — the name of the Hobbit dragon, the one who’s in the subtitle of the upcoming movie installation — as “smog.”
From Time ● Dec. 9, 2013
Treebeard rumbled for a moment, as if he were pronouncing some deep, subterranean Entish malediction.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
