deliver
verb (used with object)
to carry and turn over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients.
was delivering
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past progressiveof deliver.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 Nevada truck, he says, was delivering to a company that uses chips in a composite decking product.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
FARGO, N.D.—Oak Reile was delivering a pallet of washer fluid, cigarettes and candy to a local convenience store in 2020 when he slipped and fell, breaking two vertebrae and paralyzing him from the armpits down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
And, while Knight was delivering the biggest prize in the game, English women's cricket was also transitioning into the professional and lucrative sport it is today.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt got a taste of that feeling Friday when he was delivering a graduation speech at the University of Arizona.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
But an aria like Handel’s ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ from Rinaldo could leave an audience hoarse with cheering as well as weak with emotion, depending on which heart-throb singer was delivering it.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
