breakfast
noun
the first meal of the day; morning meal.
was breakfasting
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past progressiveof breakfast.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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“It should be an embarrassment,” he said the next morning, of the special interest frenzy convention week has become. Then he looked around the posh neoclassical conference room where he was breakfasting with reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016
The next morning Dole was breakfasting with his wife, Elizabeth, when Ford called.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2016
On a recent morning, Erica Johana Garcia was breakfasting with her two children at the center before catching a bus for the final leg of their journey to Los Angeles.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2016
Next day at 7 a. m. the President was breakfasting aboard his Baltimore & Ohio special as it slid out of the Washington yards.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was breakfasting when the present was delivered, and said, "This is indeed the resurrection of an old ally—I mind spelling these lines."
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
