Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Senate in Arizona, last year ran a spot on cable television in New Jersey, where Mr. Trump was summering at his golf club in Bedminster.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2022
Most were made while he was summering in Crete.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2018
When President Coolidge was summering at Swampscott in 1925, friends of Mr. Phillips suggested he invite the President to his cinema exhibitions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Busily at work on a series of drawings and lithographs based on Stonehenge, Henry Moore, 75, was summering at his house in Italy.
From Time Magazine Archive
“The fever has assumed a most alarming appearance,” Rush wrote to his wife, Julia, who was summering in Princeton with their youngest children.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
