Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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"We thought one of our friends was stitching us up," said Mrs Knight.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2021
In the garage clinic, a veterinary ophthalmologist from Indianapolis, Heidi Klein, was stitching Kryxis’s eyelid together after removing a triangular section that was missing the dark rim elsewhere.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2019
A minute later, while attending to the wounds on the man’s legs, I looked up and saw that she was stitching him again.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 29, 2017
For his first feature, The Golden Age of Comedy, he was stitching together scenes from the silent film comedies and wanted The Battle of the Century’s legendary pie fight.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2015
I was so taken aback—so interested, that I forgot to take the sponges out, and was stitching them up inside her when the nurse missed them.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw
