contact
noun
the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
were contacting
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past progressiveof contact.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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He added: "My main mistake was not to check the email address which made clear it wasn't X that were contacting me but a hacker. Everything else looked just like the real thing."
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
“I thought they were contacting other people,” Goldberg said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Aliasghar Ramezanpoor, executive news director at Iran International, said many Iranians were contacting the station to express happiness at Raisi’s death.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
Colleagues, meanwhile, were contacting social media companies, which labeled the video misleading or took it down.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2022
All sorts of people were contacting us with wide-ranging claims of corruption and misconduct.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
