propound
verb (used with object)
to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose.
were propounding
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past progressiveof propound.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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I was met on every side with a stare of curiosity, as if I were propounding something immoral or heretical.
From My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan
Then, as though he were propounding a conundrum, he asked: “Do you know the difference between a railroad man and a chap who wants to be one?”
From Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy by Kirk Munroe
"Now," said Miss North, as if she were propounding a theory of rare and striking originality, "who can tell me another part of the body?"
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various
"How about God?" inquired Dr. Dean with a curious air, as if he were propounding a remarkable conundrum.
From Ziska by Marie Corelli
It is notable that in this literary controversy the Moderns, even Fontenelle, seem curiously negligent of the import of the theory which they were propounding of the intellectual progress of man.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
