was weekending
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past progressiveof weekend.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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One day, after staring appalled at her reflection, she broke into tears and telephoned her mother, who was weekending in the country.
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Johnson was presumably remembering the time of the Watts riots when he tried to reach Katzenbach, then the Attorney General, only to learn that he was weekending on the Vineyard.
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The sigh was echoed in Britain, where Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was weekending in the gardens of his Sussex home.
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