connect
verb (used with object)
to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind.
were connecting
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past progressiveof connect.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 new study found that in both mouse and human retinas, electrical synapses were connecting most of these separate information channels.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Did you have any reluctance to do this for the reason that you were connecting to it so strongly?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
“During Bob’s set, I was stageside, standing next to George Harrison, who was quietly unassuming. Bob and the audience were connecting so deeply that it was like a form of communion,” Wolf writes.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025
Those first couple of years were tough because we knew we were connecting but we were a bit more maligned than other bands.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
They were connecting voters more directly to their democracy, whether through the field office down the street or a website through which they could organize their own meetings and phone banks.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
