absent
adjective
not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present).
was absenting
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past progressiveof absent.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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By reasoning with Actor James Dean she saved the production of Giant at a time when Dean was absenting himself from the set in a fury at Director George Stevens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finding out that it wasn’t, that in fact the last entries were dated, she kept count of the number of days I was absenting myself from school.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
She would go to the Eyrie, and the world and her father and mother would think she was absenting herself from her husband to attend to the bringing up of her boy.
From The Cost by David Graham Phillips
