cater
verb (used without object)
to provide food, service, etc., as for a party or wedding.
was catering
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past progressiveof cater.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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If White’s Carmy was catering a dinner for this group, the meal would start at 5.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2024
Timothy Turner, who was catering the banquet, had just driven away from it to go pick up some more chicken when the twister whipped through.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
Since the weekend, two outside events the restaurant was catering for cancelled as a result of the new variant.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021
"Everyone was catering to her because I told them her story."
From Fox News ● Jul. 10, 2021
It is clear that in writing these novels Lytton was catering for the taste which had been partly indicated and partly created by Dickens and Thackeray.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
