revive
verb (used with object)
to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew.
were reviving
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past progressiveof revive.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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Many filmmakers would have stopped there, but news leaked in the mid-2010s that the original creators were reviving the world of “Twin Peaks” yet again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
We were reviving it, I guess; “The Skin of Our Teeth” had premiered more than 30 years earlier, in 1942.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
Renaissance thinkers and artists very consciously made the claim that they were reviving long-lost traditions from the classical world in areas as diverse as scholar-ship, poetry, architecture, and sculpture.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
Bit by bit, these locals were reviving the city, with Web services, excavations, renovations, or small artisanal stores.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
The echoes of long dead years were reviving.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills
