assemble
verb (used with object)
to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
were assembling
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past progressiveof assemble.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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Araceli Berzanes, a worker at the facility, said in an interview that she and her co-worker were assembling sandwiches in the facility’s cold storage room when the fire alarm went off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The simulations indicate that a substantial fraction of icy grains likely formed COMs and carried them into the region where Jupiter's moons were assembling.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
Yes, and that framing is really critical to what we were trying to accomplish and what we had in mind as we were assembling these teams and selecting these stories.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025
“They never really provided a resupply of any value to Russian forces that were assembling around Kyiv, never really came to their aid,” said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
All the soon-to-be-formed covens were assembling into circles around the square, waiting for the Gran to seal their fates.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
