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
“They’re uneven,” he told the Times in 2008, when Anthology was screening some of his films.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021
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
On the other side of the glass of the studio booth, her legs hidden beneath an American-flag blanket, Lauren Scirocco, the associate producer, was screening potential callers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2017
On the small table between the two bunks at the end of the tent was a lighted candle, which the man was screening with his hat.
From In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson
