worship
noun
reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
was worshiping
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past progressiveof worship.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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The church at the time was worshiping in a field in Virginia.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
By 1982 Hillary Rodham was answering to Hillary Clinton and the family was worshiping regularly at Little Rock's Immanuel Baptist Church.
From Time Magazine Archive
Late on Good Friday afternoon, a University of Washington seismologist named Norman Rasmussen was worshiping in Seattle's Church of the Assumption.
From Time Magazine Archive
An even angrier Kenneth Kaunda, the President of Zambia, described Thatcher as a "pathetic figure" who was "worshiping platinum and gold."
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, at this particular time, the congregation to which the Governor belonged in Norwich was worshiping in the Episcopal church during the rebuilding of their own meeting-house, which had been destroyed by fire.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene
