underscore
verb (used with object)
to mark with a line or lines underneath; underline, as for emphasis.
were underscoring
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past progressiveof underscore.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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It was a piercing moment, but readers expecting an elegy got, instead, a few terse biographical sentences, as if Coates were underscoring the ghastly banality of this loss.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2015
