bisect
verb (used with object)
to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
were bisecting
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past progressiveof bisect.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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An hour and a half of steady hard work put them 2576 feet above the river, but they were still three hundred feet below the general level of the great plateau which we were bisecting.
From A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
