transplant
verb (used with object)
to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
was transplanting
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past progressiveof transplant.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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An hour later, Assunta, going to find a spade in the tool-house, for she was transplanting roses, came upon the Signorina's caller of yesterday standing near the tool-house with something in his hand.
From Daphne, an autumn pastoral by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
The fame of his Grammar and other works might have come over the Atlantic while he was transplanting Greek roots in the hard heads of stupid boys.
From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Oliver Optic
While I was transplanting glands for sterility, other beneficial effects were noted by me as well as my patients.
From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Sydney Blanshard Flower
The man held in his hand a trowel and was transplanting in the rich brown soil some tender green things which the woman was handing him from a basket.
From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett
