videotape
noun
magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
was videotaping
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past progressiveof videotape.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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Mom eventually hugged everyone around her, including Dressel’s Orlando-based agent who was videotaping the rowdy scene for a documentary on his pandemic-altered path to Olympic glory.
From Fox News ● Aug. 3, 2021
No one was videotaping when David Wood, then 50, encountered officers searching outside his house in Northeast Washington for two men who had just robbed a cabdriver.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2020
“I was videotaping the procession of the Black Student Union and one woman noticed me making a video of the event,” Ms. Nazariansaid.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2016
Redden testified that she was videotaping Knight in an alley in Beverly Hills when he charged toward her.
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2015
While he was videotaping the wedding of a traveler, Michael Quinn McDonagh, Mr. Palmer met Michael’s older brother James.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
