interlock
verb (used without object)
to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
was interlocking
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past progressiveof interlock.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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The pattern was interlocking diamonds and had been there for all of Zeke’s life, so long he never even really noticed it anymore.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
