sort
noun
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature.
was sorting
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past progressiveof sort.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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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
Rishi Sunak was serving breakfast at a shelter in London when the man, named Dean, asked him if he was "sorting the economy out".
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2022
Next was sorting files in a dusty accountant’s office that closed down within weeks of my arrival.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
