was canoeing

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of canoe.
  canoe

  noun

  any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.

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was canoeing

With Mrs. Sherman, he was canoeing off Manistee, Mich., and failed to swim ashore with her when capsized.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Right outside of town. I think he was canoeing down the river and saw it fly by or something.”

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

The second time I was canoeing down a flat, winding river that cuts through the woods like a sluggish snake.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The only thing I really excelled at was canoeing, and that wasn’t the kind of heroic skill people expected to see from the kid who had beaten the Minotaur.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

Stevenson, who, in his delightful Inland Voyage, speaks of the surface of the Belgian canals along which he was canoeing, as thrown up by the rain into "an infinity of little crystal fountains."

From The Splash of a Drop by A. M. (Arthur Mason) Worthington

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