crop
noun
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered.
was cropping
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past progressiveof crop.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 question that flared in history books and bars for 25 interwar years was cropping up again.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was cropping grass in the back pasture not far from Grandpa’s mule.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
One of them, with his head twenty feet in the air, was cropping the leaves from the top of a tall tree.
From Rollo in Paris by Jacob Abbott
Calico had sidled off the plowing and was cropping the grass at the edge of it.
From The Settling of the Sage by Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts
A horse was cropping the grass in a clearing, and some one beyond the thicket was reading aloud.
From Days of the Discoverers by Florence Choate
