rig
was rigging
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past progressiveof rig.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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In March 2000, according to The Daily Beast, the F.B.I. received an anonymous phone tip: Someone named “Uncle Jerry” was rigging the McDonald’s Monopoly promotion, stealing game pieces from the inside and selling them.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2020
There are no indications that German politicians were aware that VW was rigging its diesel emissions tests.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2015
Exchange officials were forehanded in clearing themselves of any charge that their institution was rigging the market against the Roosevelt candidacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
One night when the boys at the Forest Queen was rigging Hill worse’n usual, and the Hen all the time getting madder and madder, Santa Fé Charley come into the game himself.
From Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
While Peter was rigging up windlasses with pieced-out cord, Fom, with a couple of tin cups purloined from Wong's kitchen, brought up the rock, piling it in miniature dumps at the mouth of their shaft.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
