remount
verb (used with or without object)
to mount again; reascend.
was remounting
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past progressiveof remount.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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Josie Rourke, who directed “Les Liaisons” at the Donmar Warehouse, in London, last year, was remounting and reëxamining the show with a cast that was all new, with the exception of McTeer.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
West said something to this effect after taking his glass from where it was slung and looking back, to see that the enemy was remounting and continuing the pursuit.
From A Dash from Diamond City by F.A. Stewart
As he was remounting his horse on one of these occasions, the driver came up with him.
From A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge
The papers disappeared as if by magic, and the guard was remounting his horse before he saw that the act had been detected.
From Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
As he was remounting, the man slipt out of the cart behind, and, bounding off into the wood, “Ostler’s Plantations,” close by, turned, as he mounted the boundary bank, defying the constable to follow him.
From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter
