were redeeming
- past progressive of redeem.
Example Sentences
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There were redeeming features of the 2008 race, including McCain’s rebuke to a New Hampshire voter who called Obama an Arab.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2018
At week's end nervous investors were redeeming Magellan shares at a rate 75% faster than that of the previous week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early and late worked Morgan, battling with the wild vines and beautiful growths that seemed to be always trying to make the garden we were redeeming from the wilderness come back to its former state.
From Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah by Smith, W.T.
In spite of grumbling and complaints about his surroundings at Tokyo, there were redeeming features that rendered the position comparatively tolerable.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.
They carried us to Algiers, where I found that the fathers of the Most Holy Trinity were redeeming Christian slaves.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
