was restoring
- past progressive of restore.
Example Sentences
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This month, the State Department said it was restoring diplomatic ties with Venezuela in a sign of thawing relations after Maduro's ouster.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
With about 3 pounds of molded plastic, I was restoring order to a small corner of the universe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
And Safdie is so devoted to duplicating the earthy brown decor of Kerr’s late-’90s nouveau riche Phoenix home that you’d think he was restoring Notre Dame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
He said then that the "most important thing to the people across my constituency" was "restoring a sense of moral probity and public spiritedness to our political system".
From BBC ● May 13, 2025
Adjoining the den was a furnace room, which contained a tool-littered table piled with some of his other works-in- progress—an amplifying unit, an elderly wind-up Victrola that he was restoring to service.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
