compose
verb (used with object)
to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements.
was composing
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past progressiveof compose.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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The movie Jon Batiste agreed to make, by Emmy-winning documentary maker Matthew Heineman and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, was supposed to be about the performance of a symphony he was composing.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
I was composing on set and just coming up with little tunes.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
He said his first rhyme at 3; was composing letters, a diary and poems before he was 6; and wrote illustrated stories by 7 and virtuoso prose by 12.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2020
Did he know, when he wrote that famous “wah-WAH-wah” for “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” that he was composing one of the most intensely evocative and ripe-for-parody flourishes in film music history?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2020
Patria claimed that Pedrito, a man of few words if there ever was one, was composing love poems for her and reciting them during visiting hours.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
