was holidaying
- past progressive of holiday.
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 Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2019
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
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 Johnson, Frank Tenney
