was vending
- past progressive of vend.
Example Sentences
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Last year, sanitation workers in the Bronx tossed whole watermelons and boxes of produce belonging to another woman who sold fruit on the street and also was vending without a permit.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
Now Runnymede owned the selection, whilst its former occupier was vending sixpenny parcels of inferior fruit on a railway platform.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
By this time a London kinsman of the inventor, named Anthony Daffy, was vending the remedy.
From Old English Patent Medicines in America by Griffenhagen, George B.
She was a flower-girl, and was vending bouquets from a basket jauntily borne on one arm.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund