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
He had put an unaccustomed strain upon them and they were remonstrating.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Our own men, on the contrary, were remonstrating audibly, and to my lasting shame I joined them.
From The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes
