Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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On Sept. 1, he was traded to the Ravens, and he soon found a short-term fully furnished sublet from an Owings Mills couple who was wintering in Nigeria.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2017
When Smith's men came back 18 months later it was to discover that many a home had been raided while the rear guard was wintering snugly in Philadelphia to ease the nerves of unendangered Philadelphians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, while blue-eyed Mona Williams was wintering in Italy, her suave, keen-eyed husband disclosed for the first time, to Securities & Exchange Commission inquisitors, how nearly correct that figure was and how it grew.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a result, one afternoon in 1915, when the family was wintering in San Antonio, Mamie was bundled off on a drive to Fort Sam Houston.
From Time Magazine Archive
He imparted shreds of local information to Harry while changing the plates, who answered good-humouredly, but would have preferred to hear that the whole neighbourhood was wintering in Jericho.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
