soldier
noun
a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
was soldiering
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past progressiveof soldier.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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The picture from Aug. 30, which was posted on bride Barb Solish’s Twitter account, suggested that Ginsburg was soldiering on.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2020
By June 21, Mr. Adami was soldiering through the occasional stabs of pain, unwilling to veer from his steadily escalating training.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2012
At the age when most would-be composers are hard at their technical training, Roy Harris was soldiering.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the age of twenty he joined a regiment of artillery, and seems to have perceived, a year before the war, that the only profession he was fitted for was soldiering.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
Raymond Asquith was the bravest of the brave, nor did he ever complain of anything that fell to his lot while he was soldiering.
From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith
