was hooding
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past progressiveof hood.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
hoodnouna soft or flexible covering for the head and neck, either separate or attached to a cloak, coat, or the like.
Example Sentences
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"Jack noticed that I was hooding my drives," said Crampton.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Across a green field from the Irving cottage Dr. Donald Hamilton's big house was hooding itself in the shadows of the thick fir grove that enabled the doctor to have a garden.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery