supply
verb (used with object)
to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite.
was supplying
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past progressiveof supply.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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It later confirmed that it was supplying intelligence and had deployed military experts to Saudi Arabia.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Lacaze said Lynas was supplying its non-Chinese rare earths to Japanese magnet makers that in turn supply the U.S. defense industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Venezuela was supplying around 800,000 barrels a day in the recent past, down from well over three million in the 1990s.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
This unusual motion led him to propose that some kind of invisible structure -- dark matter -- was supplying the extra gravitational pull needed to keep those galaxies intact.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025
I wandered over to the laptop that was supplying the music to the stereo.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
