was sorting
- past progressive of sort.
Example Sentences
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Henry Darby, marketing and communications officer for Swansea Building Society, said he was sorting through the post when the postcard dropped out, and that he had found limited information about the intended recipient online.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2024
After her grandmother died, Mitchell was sorting through her family’s paperwork, hounding her great aunt to write a will to protect the home in Exposition Park she bought decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Titled “Famous Composers” and featuring the likes of Bach and Mozart, the tome turned up while someone was sorting through a relative’s belongings.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
Now she was sorting out anniversary tokens of a sort, metal badges stamped with the battalion logo on one side and each fighter’s name, and blood type, on the other.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
I was sorting quickly through the boxes, making piles of people of my mother’s side of the family, then my father’s, and then one of faces I didn’t know, a growing stack of strangers.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
