was resetting
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past progressiveof reset.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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Smith-Schuster then signed a three-year contract with the New England Patriots, but lasted just one season with the franchise that was resetting after Bill Belichick’s departure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
So when the camera had finished a run and was resetting, I asked Her Majesty to breathe.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
When he left work on Friday and turned it on, he noticed the screen was resetting itself “every 30 to 45 seconds.”
From The Verge ● Feb. 14, 2018
All of the time I was resetting my traps I kept looking around in the trees for a monkey.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Then all the time when I was resetting the trap I would talk trap to him, and by action and word, teach him the nature of the trap.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock