stagnate
verb (used without object)
to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
were stagnating
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past progressiveof stagnate.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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He said the shift was prompted by a realization that vaccination rates were stagnating.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2021
Through the long years when Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United were amassing trophies and cash, and Liverpool were stagnating in a derelict neighbourhood, Anfield could only dream of today’s reversal of fortunes.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2019
After the last round of rankings, published in 2013, there were warnings from ministers in England that results were "stagnating" - and reforms were promised to match international rivals.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2016
This disconnect became glaring during the consistory in February 2012, when more than half of those in attendance were European, even though the numbers in the pews were stagnating across the Continent.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2014
Each day was tense and eager to them; to the world whose prying eyes could not penetrate through the barricade of winter it was as though those lives were stagnating.
From The Short Cut by Frank Tenney Johnson
