submit
verb (used with object)
to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
were submitting
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past progressiveof submit.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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“A lot of countries were submitting songs in English, and that was a way of saying, ‘See, we can speak the language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
YouTube wasn’t even aware he and his team were submitting their series for Emmy consideration in 2013, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
A State Election Board investigation found that those people were submitting ballots for themselves and family members who lived with them, which is allowed under Georgia law.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
What I did was I pulled things that I already had read that I loved and then quotes that might have inspired me, but then people were submitting other things.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
Now they were submitting themselves to this deforming discipline, undergoing this devilish transmogrification.
From Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair
