was billeting
- past progressive of billet.
Example Sentences
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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 Dumas, Alexandre
He was billeting men and horses in the little hamlet, and at all the farms.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King