bomb
noun
a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
were bombing
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past progressiveof bomb.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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It was another driver who asked one of the infantry sergeants what they were bombing.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
Lisa Henson: And to tell you the truth, at 16, I really didn’t realize they were bombing.
From Slate ● May 29, 2018
That year, he’d seen yellow megaphones rise above the Washington skyline, which would be used to tell the city when the Russians were bombing.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2017
They said the pilots believed they were bombing Islamic State.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2016
He cared only that the Allies were bombing Germany, and that Hitler would lose the war.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
