prospect
noun
Usually prospects
was prospecting
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past progressiveof prospect.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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She had permission to use it, but she didn’t want visitors to think someone was prospecting for buried treasure at the hallowed resting place of 400,000 Americans.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2020
He said he was prospecting for uranium with a Geiger counter on the Mojave Desert, and found a rich strike on top of a little rocky knoll.
From Time Magazine Archive
People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Monster Chang, having squandered his millions, was prospecting again in Shantung.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was prospecting around for another place when Art Pratt hailed me.
From Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by Gallishaw, John
