Progressed
[prəuɡrest]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Progress
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Examples
- To that had life progressed 3000 or 4000 years ago from its starting-place in the slime of the tidal beaches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So mankind has progressed through savagery, chattel slavery, serfdom, to wage slavery or the capitalism of to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I now telegraphed to Washington: The fight to-day progressed favorably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mrs. Bry, to Mrs. Fisher's despair, had not progressed beyond the point of weighing her social alternatives in public. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The preparations at Corpus Christi for an advance progressed as rapidly in the absence of some twenty or more lieutenants as if we had been there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He worked all that winter, meeting the many practical difficulties that arose as he progressed with his machine, and devising solutions for overcoming each. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This Art Slow in Growth, but no Art Progressed Faster. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As the eighteenth century progressed, it is apparent in the literature of the time that what to do with the poor was again exercising men's thoughts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As Dowler progressed in his explanation, Mr. Winkle's countenance grew more and more dignified. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As the war progressed the daily newspaper sales became very profitable, and I gave up the vegetable store. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His machine progressed so well that by April, 1845, he found that it would sew a seam four yards long. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As the centuries progressed, more skilful artists appeared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yes, I should think likely, responded the official; but the science has not progressed sufficiently to render it exact enough in such matters. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Earth men have not yet progressed to a point where they can comprehend the things that I have written in those notes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In our day we have progressed to a point where such sentiments mark weakness and atavism. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- His attempt, however, serves to show how far the Senate had progressed from its original condition as a purely patrician body. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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