remonstrate
verb (used with object)
to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
were remonstrating
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past progressiveof remonstrate.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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The diggers were remonstrating; their morality was shocked.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade
Our own men, on the contrary, were remonstrating audibly, and to my lasting shame I joined them.
From The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes
He had put an unaccustomed strain upon them and they were remonstrating.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
