screen
noun
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
was screening
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past progressiveof screen.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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With Milan Lucic off for interference, Colorado tied it at 13:46 when Cale Makar’s shot deflected in off Nichushkin, who was screening Markstrom.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
DeVito: I was screening “The War of the Roses” with Tom Sherak, the head of marketing at Fox.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2019
His lawyer won’t say where he is living, but at last report he was screening visitors from behind a sheet on his front door.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
The film was screening as part of NewFest, New York’s L.G.B.T. film festival, and is currently travelling the late-season circuit, looking to be picked up for distribution.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2018
Their third shot ricocheted, striking the top of the strong plank behind which the major was screening himself, and only frightening the latter by the shock upon the timber.
From The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid
