holiday
noun
a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
was holidaying
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past progressiveof holiday.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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Josimar Medina, a 31-year-old Peruvian who was holidaying in Spain with his girlfriend, said he was sleeping on the Renfe train when "I woke up and I was in the air."
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
A British national of Iraqi birth, Saad al-Hilli was holidaying with his family in the picturesque countryside of Lake Annecy in eastern France.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor Hamish Spencer was holidaying in Colombia when an amateur ornithologist John Murillo pointed out a wild Green Honeycreeper with distinct half green, or female, and half blue, male, plumage.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023
Her deputy Oleksiy Symonenko resigned in January 2023 after media reports he was holidaying in Spain during wartime.
From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2023
At any rate, he was holidaying on the lake that summer.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Bertrand W. Sinclair
