fallow
adjective
(of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
was fallowing
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past progressiveof fallow.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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Madeleine was fallowing the small trim figure on the large chestnut with expanded eyes, but she answered evenly enough: "He has some ailment and is remaining in town under Howard's care."
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
In the same summer I was fallowing and preparing at considerable expense a field for wheat.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
