plumb
noun
a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line.
was plumbing
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past progressiveof plumb.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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When paleontologist Dean Lomax was plumbing the depths of a fossil collection at Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History in 2016, one dusty specimen caught his eye.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2022
In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered its starring role.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plumber went on to say he was plumbing part time now because he made more money trading stocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
