cater
verb (used without object)
to provide food, service, etc., as for a party or wedding.
were catering
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past progressiveof cater.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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When AFP visited last month, street vendors were catering to data centre workers on their lunchbreak near a roadside banner calling for "promoting high-quality development", a government tech policy catchphrase.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Other big increases were catering, which saw prices soar by 6%, while personal goods and services, which include glasses, jewellery and dental treatments, went up by 5.7% over the year.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
And doing that not so much by sending in more troops, but by making sure that we were catering our true presence there to the counter-terrorism threat.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2021
In other parts of the country, malls were opening, bars were filling up and boardwalks were catering to tourists as summer begins.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2020
Soon the axe was heard ringing through the forests, and tree after tree fell to the ground, while the occasional sharp ring of a rifle told that the hunters were catering successfully for the camp.
From The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
