auction
noun
a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
was auctioning
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past progressiveof auction.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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Last year, the company announced a series of exclusive, one-of-a-kind e-bikes that it was auctioning off under its 1-OFF series brand name, with the Schwinn Sting-Ray-inspired Mosh/Chopper as the first offering.
From The Verge ● May 24, 2022
She recently returned from a trip to Britain, where Sotheby’s was auctioning her work, and has a trip planned to Japan.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2022
Days after a breach at T-Mobile exposed about 53 million people’s personal information, a hacking group known as ShinyHunters announced that it was auctioning 70 million sets of sensitive data purportedly stolen from AT&T.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
Then the company he works for was auctioning off an ambulance.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2017
They sat in to their little rubber, and while they played a passenger of importance was auctioning off the pool on the ship's run for the next day.
From Sonnie-Boy's People by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
