build
verb (used with object)
to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials.
were building
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past progressiveof build.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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ZBC reported that the group was travelling from Gandami in Chikomba, where Chivayo and his wife were building a rural home, when the helicopter crashed at Kudenga Farm about 40 minutes after take-off.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The breakthrough came while paleontologists Oscar Castillo and Jesús Serrano were building a database of fossils from the lithographic limestones of Montsec held in Catalan and European museums.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
County’s border with Ventura, in a makeshift tent city for Southern California Edison employees who were building a transmission line, the water hit around 1:20 a.m. and killed 84 more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Some of those people told me, ‘I live across the street from this Landover site, and I had no idea they were building this data center there.’
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
He cleared the T. rex trap and reached a sandy beach where some smaller dinosaurs were building nests.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
