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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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
Brits had retired from all rugby and was holidaying on the Spanish island of Ibiza last year — kicking back and sipping cocktails, he said — when the cellphone rang.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
Belgian media said the 44-year-old woman was holidaying in Barcelona with her husband and sons.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2017
He was a young and genial medico from Seattle, who had just returned from service with the American forces overseas, and was holidaying briefly before he took up private practice again.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
