were composing
- past progressive of compose.
Example Sentences
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He’d been a more than congenial host, showing this writer around the cavernous space where a group of what looked like teenagers with laptops were composing the landscapes of the film’s fictional world Pandora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
In the chat, meanwhile, others were composing a letter:
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
The times in which these two wonderful artists were composing were very different.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021
When we graphed quadratic functions using translations, we were composing functions.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
They might have been taken for a pair of conspirators plotting a move; no one would ever have suspected that they were composing a performance, unique of its sort, which would be famous to-morrow.
From The Bill-Toppers by Castaigne, J. André
