convoy
verb (used with object)
to accompany or escort, usually for protection.
were convoying
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past progressiveof convoy.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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Their cargo was hardly of the common-market variety: 75 tons of Chinese weapons, which they were convoying from Tanzania to Uganda.
From Time Magazine Archive
Navy denials, that U.S. warships actually were convoying British vessels long before the U.S. went actively to war.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was on guard duty on the sixth deck of our vessel, and I noticed unusual activity on the part of the destroyers that were convoying our fleet.
From In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France by Edward Alva Trueblood
"This is my section," said Dr. Elizabeth Black; and the three women who were convoying her down the aisle crowded around her for a last good-bye.
From Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Florence Finch Kelly
She parted wire hawser after hawser, until there could have been few hawsers left on board the ships that were convoying her.
From The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight
