re-enact
verb (used with object)
to enact for a second or subsequent time.
were re-enacting
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past progressiveof re-enact.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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“Whatever we were re-enacting and recreating that she did in her life, if it was live, it’s like, ‘Well, let’s do it live.’
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
After all, they were re-enacting a classic study in the field.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2016
Given what they were re-enacting, perhaps it wasn’t meant to be.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2015
We were re-enacting for television the most testing stretches of Cook’s first voyage to Australia in 1770.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 12, 2011
At the memory of what had evidently been an exciting adventure, the man lapsed into silence, as though he were re-enacting the events in his mind.
From Bob Chester's Grit From Ranch to Riches by Frank V. Webster
