speak
verb (used without object)
to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk.
was speaking
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past progressiveof speak.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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Trump made a surprise phone call to Huang while the Nvidia boss was speaking on stage at a tech conference in Los Angeles on 14 September.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
He was speaking to a separate issue—his belief that the predicament of dementia speaks to a fragility that we all share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Miliband was speaking as “a proud British Jew” and a lifelong supporter of the state of Israel, he said.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Russell was speaking a couple of hours before a practice session that ran incident-free.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
And he didn’t actually know what was happening in the stock market; the one time he couldn’t check his BlackBerry was when he was speaking.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
