bait
noun
food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
were baiting
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past progressiveof bait.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 teacher said they were baiting each other, with the defendant admitting he taunted Harvey in an effort to get him to lose his cool.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
“If anything, we were baiting Biden bettors,” Mason says.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2020
The bit was working and now the cast and other writers were baiting me, daring me to go after certain people.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2015
But the critics were baiting their prodigy traps.
From Time Magazine Archive
He asked me to decide on the most trivial matters, as if he were baiting me.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
