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
Nearly half a million years ago, humans in Africa were assembling wood into large structures, according to a study published Thursday that describes notched and tapered logs buried under sand in Zambia.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
When I was in the doghouse, 1 felt as if I were assembling a jigsaw puzzle in which each piece had a specific place.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
