complete
adjective
were completing
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past progressiveof complete.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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The Daily Telegraph leads with reports that RAF jets had two close encounters with unidentified drones earlier this year while they were completing training exercises over the North Sea.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The employees were completing routine field work near the picturesque waters of Gumboot Lake when things took a terrifying turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
At the same time, multilateral lenders were completing two rounds of debt relief that wrote down what many developing nations owed — in some cases to zero — and offered new grants and cut-rate loans.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
"Staff indicated that they were completing their review of the bank and of the broader horizontal review at that time and I was waiting for the results of that review," Barr said this week.
From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2023
Then a day or two later, my father took me into the Schottegat where they were completing tie loading of the S.S.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
