render
verb (used with object)
to cause to be or become; make.
were rendering
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past progressiveof render.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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Asked by the prosecutor whether Travis McMichael commented about the Black people who were rendering aid to the victims shown in the video, Vaughan replied that he did not.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
“Saving the children,” for her, was “as true a service to the country as that which men were rendering by going into the armies to serve in the field”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2020
That ad-blockers were rendering their messages invisible on more and more screens.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2018
Day drove me next to the well pad, a football field of cement and a few condensate tanks that painters were rendering forest green.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2011
“And he’s not...everyone thinks...big Quidditch hero—” Snape’s bitterness and dislike were rendering him incoherent, and Lily’s eyebrows were traveling farther and farther up her forehead.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
