voyage
noun
a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
was voyaging
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past progressiveof voyage.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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My own memory, however, was jogged as I read that Gretel was voyaging from Australia to the U.S. as deck cargo aboard a freighter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The soul of her, the suffering soul, was voyaging through the mist with Ruffo, was voyaging through the mist and through the night with—her Sicilian and all the perfect past.
From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
He hated his latchkey, he hated the long stroll in Hyde Park, the absurd delay upon the bridge, his preoccupation with the Muscovy duck, or whatever bird it was, voyaging over the Serpentine.
From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens
But while he was voyaging his friends had not forgotten him.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The lady had become jealous of a fair princess, who was voyaging on board the Florida, and had fallen in love with her lord.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by William Henry Giles Kingston
