bargain
noun
an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost.
were bargaining
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past progressiveof bargain.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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Locked-out players and management officials were bargaining for the seventh straight day Sunday, just one day before Major League Baseball's deadline to salvage March 31 openers and a 162-game schedule.
From Fox News ● Feb. 27, 2022
And under the initial proposal, workers would have been prohibited from striking while they were bargaining with the companies, depriving them of a crucial source of leverage.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2021
Because Ralphs and Albertsons were bargaining jointly with those chains, they locked out their workers in solidarity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2019
In effect, he says, they were bargaining his health for a confession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2016
We set up a scene with Moms and Derek playing like Derek was a customer and Mom was a used car salesman and they were bargaining over a car.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
