doubt
verb (used with object)
to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
was doubting
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past progressiveof doubt.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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“Literally, a month before the movie came out, I was doubting myself as a songwriter,” Ejae explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
And whenever I felt like we were straying either in story or in tone or whatever it was, whenever I was doubting our direction, I would just go back to Olivia.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2022
“Coming into the game, everybody was doubting us,” defensive end Jeffery Simmons told NBC afterward.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2021
“This was the best possible news I could have gotten, something that at that point I was doubting was even possible,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
She holds my hand while she cries, which I was doubting she’d even do because she was so pissed when she got here.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
