accompany
verb (used with object)
to go along or in company with; join in action.
was accompanying
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past progressiveof accompany.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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The housewife was accompanying a friend who lost everything.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
At the time of the crash, the ambulance was transporting a 94-year-old man to the hospital along with an 81-year-old woman who was accompanying him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
In the summer of 2021, Ibrahim said, his brother-in-law was accompanying a bus with their company from Mazar-e-Sharif to Kabul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Houck has maintained that he was acting in defense of his 12-year-old son, who was accompanying him, and has claimed that Love cursed and shouted abusive comments at them both.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2024
He started out too high, and Hussey, who was accompanying him on the banjo, kept hissing, “Lower! Lower!”
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
