vend
verb (used with object)
to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling.
was vending
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past progressiveof vend.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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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
By this time a London kinsman of the inventor, named Anthony Daffy, was vending the remedy.
From Old English Patent Medicines in America by George B. Griffenhagen
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 Joseph Furphy
She was a flower-girl, and was vending bouquets from a basket jauntily borne on one arm.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg
