farm
noun
a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
was farming
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past progressiveof farm.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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Bosch was farming the strike and turning down singles and left 18 from the final over, but he skied the second ball from Prasidh Krishna to cover.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
“I was farming that ranch. It’s where I invented this whole retail business that I’ve been running,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
Growing up in LaGrange, a city of 950 along the Mississippi River, Mr. Lewis would scoot a toy John Deere tractor through his mother’s apartment and pretend he was farming the carpet.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2021
Constant was farming some on his own and was the farm manager for an organic soybean brokerage company that was selling soybeans to the Japanese.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
Ray Veech ran the garage when his dad was farming, and I thought I had some business with him.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
