group
noun
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation.
was grouping
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past progressiveof group.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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"All the neighbours came in and it was tea and cakes all around and everybody was grouping around this little nine inch television," Pearson said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2022
“What I failed to realize I was grouping him into a box. Here’s this high up NFL executive and how’s he going to react?”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2020
At the corporate level, NBCUniversal announced in September that it was grouping together Bravo, Oxygen, E!
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2015
He searched the Rocky Mountain states for vertebrate fossils; he was making the American Museum's vertebrate collection the best in the world; he was grouping and arranging exhibits for their best educational value.
From Time Magazine Archive
His own moral predicament absorbed him—this weird, silent way in which the whole political scene was changing in aspect and composition under his eyes, was grouping itself for him round one figure—one face.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward
