bridge
noun
a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
were bridging
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past progressiveof bridge.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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I wanted to try to make sure that we were bridging that relationship as well as mother-daughter.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2024
A little farther on a wet, laurel-bordered road into the woods was being corduroyed; here they were bridging the lazy and discoloured waters of a creek, there erecting log huts.
From Ailsa Paige by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Alexandra was only sixteen then, and mother and daughter were bridging a gap when there was no maid at all in the Salisbury kitchen.
From The Treasure by Kathleen Thompson Norris
What a gap we were bridging, the half-raised veil of the eternal on the one side and the cabs of London on the other.
From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
His thoughts were bridging over the years and once more Angela was beside him.
From Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners
