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
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
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
D'Iberville came overland again to Rupert river in 1687, promptly seized the English sloop there, and sent four men across to Charlton Island to spy on Captain Bond, who was wintering on the ship Churchill.
From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
