copy
noun
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original.
was copying
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past progressiveof copy.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 was copying what her lips were doing and her face was doing, and then her nose touched my nose, and it went, Bzzzt!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
Thumping a tennis ball against the garage door at the age of one, which his mother says happened because he was copying his brother, was the first sign that Draper possessed the talent.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
“It was cute — she was copying our stretching when we were warming up. I thought it was cute.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
“At that point, because we noticed that she was copying every single page out of the book and we started recording her,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
I was still so dopey that I couldn’t make any sense of the passage I was copying, only a sentence here and there.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
