was stockpiling
- past progressive of stockpile.
Example Sentences
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When Washingtonians were frantically hoarding toilet paper at the start of the pandemic, Libby Rasmussen was stockpiling disco balls instead.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2022
A storage company was stockpiling the petcoke — prolonged exposure to which at high concentrations can cause lung disease — without a city permit.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
"Honestly, it looks like March of 2020, when everybody was stockpiling and the shelves were bare," another man, Dominic, told Fox News Digital.
From Fox News ● Jan. 11, 2022
He said Tesco was stockpiling non-fresh food as it prepares for "the worst-case scenario".
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2020
Anglo-Dutch consumer goods maker Unilever said in January that it was stockpiling ice creams in Britain and deodorants in continental Europe to guard against potential supply disruptions in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
From Reuters ● Feb. 19, 2019
