billet
noun
lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
was billeting
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past progressiveof billet.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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He was billeting men and horses in the little hamlet, and at all the farms.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary Alsop King Waddington
The city had just paid more than six millions of florins, had contributed in goods an equivalent sum, and was billeting soldiers at a crushing expense.
From The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas
