was transporting
- past progressive of transport.
Example Sentences
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Watching the movie in its original format, with an ecstatic audience in a packed theater, was transporting, communal, enough to make one sentimental.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
A vessel seized in Finland suspected of damaging a telecommunications cable between Helsinki and Tallinn was transporting Russian steel targeted by European Union sanctions, Finnish Customs said on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026
At the time of the crash, the ambulance was transporting a 94-year-old man to the hospital along with an 81-year-old woman who was accompanying him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
It wouldn’t be an “Alien” story if the xenomorph didn’t escape, along with the other organisms the Maginot was transporting.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
Two months later, it met an inglorious end when, during the Battle of Fort Lee, the American ship that was transporting it was sunk by the British.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
