contract
noun
an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
were contracting
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past progressiveof contract.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 former president was concerned with the health of those who did not have access to safe drinking water and were contracting the disease.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024
As Massachusetts reported the first known monkeypox case in the United States, and European officials reported that men who have sex with men were contracting the virus, Mayer braced for an influx of patients.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
Those who were vaccinated were contracting COVID-19 at lower levels, were experiencing less-severe cases if infected and were less likely to infect others.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
The woman also said that her boyfriend and other prisoners were even afraid to visit the nurse’s office because they guessed that’s where some people were contracting the virus.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
Now does it not seem at those times as if the whole body were contracting itself—and when people are shivering with cold, have they not a shrunk, shrivelled look?
From The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals by Jean Macé
