was multiplying
- past progressive of multiply.
Example Sentences
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Bogotá’s population was multiplying with Colombians fleeing violence or seeking opportunity.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024
Smartphones with cameras, social media, Facebook, Twitter, Google Earth, Google street view, YouTube – the digital world was multiplying at an astonishing rate.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020
Yet only one was multiplying massively enough to produce the ugly green discoloration on the cave walls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Watching the cell-damage effect, the Harvard researchers could see that the virus was multiplying.
From Time Magazine Archive
These photographs were definite proof that the virus was multiplying in the Reston monkeys— that it was not a laboratory contamination.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
