site
noun
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment.
was siting
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past progressiveof site.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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It was Thanksgiving, and Matt Silver was siting around a table with his family when his 24-year-old girlfriend texted.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2018
She turned and, over her shoulder, laughed mischievously at Maurice, who was siting behind her.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
One day I was siting in the hall-way of our cottage busily employed fashioning, from some crimson willow withes, a pretty basket-cradle, when a shadow suddenly shut out the sunlight from me.
From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by M?r J?kai
H——, the great director of Chinese affairs, was siting on an old mattress looking quite paralysed; P——, his counterpart in the Russian bank, was striding about excitedly and muttering to himself.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
