recharge
verb (used with object)
to charge again with electricity.
was recharging
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past progressiveof recharge.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 was recharging in the last few weeks before the new school year when she started to feel sick, took a couple coronavirus tests and suddenly had to isolate.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2022
After the long and tumultuous spring, Richard Nixon was recharging.
From Time Magazine Archive
Francisco darted forward from the rocks, and perceived Hawkhurst, standing beneath them with the musket in his hand, which he was recharging.
From The Pirate by Frederick Marryat
“Who’s that away to the right, ridin’ like a madman after a calf?” asked Jenkins, overtaking Archie, who was recharging his gun at the gallop.
From The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Francisco darted forward from the rocks, and perceived Hawkhurst standing beneath them with the musket in his hand, which he was recharging.
From The Pirate, and The Three Cutters by Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph) Sullivan
