branch
noun
a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
was branching
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past progressiveof branch.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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In her senior year, Humar started an internship at Tencent, an online messaging company that was branching out into curating news.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
By 2006, for example, Amazon was branching out into serving businesses for storage, databases and other infrastructure with Amazon Web Services.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2016
But "what really helped us," Epstein says, "was branching out into radio and having that traditional medium play off social media."
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2015
In Denmark he had worked in a bicycle plant and he now became bench hand in the John R. Keim Mills at Buffalo, a bicycle factory which was branching into automobile parts.
From Time Magazine Archive
To maintain one great paradox, he was branching out into innumerable ones.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
