concoct
verb (used with object)
to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cooking.
were concocting
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past progressiveof concoct.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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At least then, a certain intrigue existed, an anticipation that the Jets were concocting plays to integrate Tebow so ingenious, so creative that they could have been hung on the refrigerator.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2012
At least IVF embryos were created as an end in themselves; now scientists were concocting embryos to serve as little more than lab equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
McKinnon told the Daily News that he quit his job as Sharpton's aide five weeks ago because he could not "live with all those lies" the Brawley advisers were concocting.
From Time Magazine Archive
For days the local newspapers had been full of the mock-solemn high jinks that Art Professor Kaprow, Sculptor Charles Frazier and CBS Producer Gordon Hyatt were concocting.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wondered what story my friends, the Henley detectives, were concocting in their report, and what action Nigel Rawnsley would take when he had digested it.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
