array
verb (used with object)
to place in proper or desired order; marshal.
were arraying
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past progressiveof array.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 agency and the committee were arraying for battle.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2016
He tried to look away from the books, to the guards that were arraying themselves around the pyre.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
This was the chamber of Josephine; that young lady and her mother were arraying themselves for a grand fancy and masquerade ball to be given that night, at the princely mansion of a millionaire.
From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson
Facts were arraying themselves and marching before him for review.
From Children of the Desert by Louis Dodge
In the room to the right they had laid Montgomery's body, and were arraying it for burial.
From Fort Amity by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
