migrate
verb (used without object)
to go from one country, region, or place to another.
was migrating
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past progressiveof migrate.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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In November 2024, @CForce3000 announced the account was migrating to BlueSky, saying of X, “I don’t think there’s much reason to be on here anymore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026
"With these markers, we could determine whether the bird was local or if it was migrating from somewhere else," said Vander Zanden, who is the principal investigator of UF's Animal Migration and Ecology Lab.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2024
This book preceded what happened last year and in a way it’s felt as if everyone was migrating over to my position, because I’d always been ranting or raving about different cases.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
“We needed to get the stuff that breeds in boreal forest and tundra and was migrating through Connecticut, plus get the Connecticut breeders.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2021
It seemed that all that was richest, most brilliant and noted in Rome, was migrating to Antium.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
