adjourn
verb (used with object)
to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely.
were adjourning
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past progressiveof adjourn.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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Youngkin met briefly with a bipartisan delegation from the House and Senate, who trooped up to his ceremonial office on the third floor of the Capitol to say they were adjourning.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2022
At half past ten all the men had left and from what Ted heard he understood that Knabe, Winckel, 72 O’Reilly and Schoen were adjourning to some other place to perfect plans.
From Ted Marsh on an Important Mission by Alice Carsey
They were barely read just as we were adjourning, and not a word of explanation given.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
