mark
noun
a visible impression or trace on something, such as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise.
was marking
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past progressiveof mark.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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“I was marking these different items up by like 50%,” says Arora, now 17.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
"I was marking my run-up out and Shane Warne came over and said 'That's a bowl first, isn't it?'," says Broad.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
“She probably wasn’t even really singing it ... she just kind of was marking it,” McCarthy added.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2023
That’s where it started off with the parenthesis; it was marking a sense of time passing but also emphasizing the single exposure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
And when Boyle coined the phrase experimentum crucis to honour the Puy-de-Dôme experiment he was marking the beginning of a new era in which philosophical disputes would be resolved by experimentation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
