promenade
noun
a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
was promenading
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past progressiveof promenade.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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He had left his offices on Hollywood Boulevard, and was promenading down the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2014
In great good humor Conductor Arturo Toscanini of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society was promenading the deck of the S.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was promenading on the arm of a handsome but beefy-looking Englishman, whom she introduced to me as her husband.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
As he was promenading one day near the jetty at the extremity of the port he encountered an individual singularly habited and possessed of a most remarkable countenance.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
The next day he was promenading Broadway with Miss S., when he was confronted, opposite St. Paul's, by a furious man, with black whiskers, who halted directly in his path.
From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage
