cable
noun
a heavy, strong rope.
was cabling
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past progressiveof cable.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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As late as April 28 he was cabling Kissinger that he foresaw Americans staying in Saigon for "a year or more."
From Time Magazine Archive
Up to the last moment in July, 1914, he was cabling his New York partner that there would probably be no hostilities.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
