coach
noun
a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
was coaching
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past progressiveof coach.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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"I wasn't playing tennis anymore. I was coaching in the United States and I wasn't really sure there was a way back to professional tennis," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
In 2015, when he was coaching Notre Dame, Mr. Kelly said he doubted that any of his players could meet the university’s academic standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
The loss tied the worst of his NFL career, a 29-point loss to Seattle in 2012, when Harbaugh was coaching the San Francisco 49ers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2025
As for Miami’s pursuit of Harbaugh, that came almost a decade earlier, when he was coaching at Stanford.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025
It was hard not to compare what I was witnessing every day in Newark with what I observed back at Maplewood’s Columbia High School where I was coaching.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
