feel
verb (used with object)
to perceive or examine by touch.
was feeling
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past progressiveof feel.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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Wyle: It’s exactly what I was feeling during the pandemic: “How can I make more of this time on Earth and serve more than myself?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Draper has been hampered by bone bruising in his serving arm for more than a year, but said at the weekend, external he was "feeling physically good" before the Mubadala DC Open.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Axios reported that Graham told an associate that he was feeling unwell shortly before his death.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Here I was feeling fine. Maybe not the freshest, like at the beginning of the tournament, but I was physically all right," Djokovic said.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Papa said he was feeling so good that he felt he could have walked right out on the waters of the river just as Jesus did when he walked on the waters of the sea.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
