tour
noun
a traveling around from place to place.
was touring
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past progressiveof tour.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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All of the allegations relate to an incident at Tape, a private members' club in London, on February 19, 2023, while Brown was touring Britain.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
By age 25 Belafonte was touring nationally, and one listener, the film impresario Otto Preminger, cast him as the male lead in his 1954 movie, “Carmen Jones.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"And it wasn't really going like that, I was touring clubs, not breaking through. I was struggling, with work, life, my identity. I couldn't find my place. Frustration fuelled the song."
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Rosie Flores added that “back in ‘94 when I was touring with Butch Hancock in Europe, I took a bad fall, at the end of our month-long tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
He felt as though a company of ants was touring his scalp.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
