subscribe
verb (used with object)
to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment.
was subscribing
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past progressiveof subscribe.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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Suddenly I was subscribing to Games magazine, scouring the Internet for Sondheim’s early New York cryptics.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2021
I didn't like it even while I was subscribing to it, and there was in the most literal sense nothing I could say to stop the bandwagon, even if I'd wanted to.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2013
Ireland, too, was subscribing as Ireland had not subscribed since Parnell's zenith: and this was an Ireland in which the land-hunger had been largely appeased.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Whether he was subscribing for a Catholic Orphans' Home or a Methodist College he would remark, as he gave liberally and freely, "I always try to honor God Almighty's drafts."
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall
Stephen, who was immersed in a book on Mayflies, put in ten francs under the impression that he was subscribing towards the rent of the Mess.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 26, 1917 by Various
