journey
noun
a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip.
was journeying
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past progressiveof journey.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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Now, as a filmmaker, she was journeying, planet by planet, through that cosmos just as her documentary about it waited to air.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2016
One day, as he was journeying from Africa to England, he leaped from the ship, drowned.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was when the ugly duchess was journeying to her marriage.
From Time Magazine Archive
I told her nothing, save that Felicity was in Boston and that I was journeying thither to see her.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Thus it came that Theodosia was journeying North, dressed in a new suit of blue serge, which had been sent from Atlanta, to fit her measure, with the rest of her traveling outfit.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
