damage
noun
injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness.
were damaging
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past progressiveof damage.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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“It was happening more often than it should and we just realized that we really were damaging soil.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
He said claims like Wandelt's "pull on your heartstrings" but were "damaging" to the search for his daughter.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
Speaking at the ceremony, Hun Manet said the old airport was located too close to the Angkor temples and it was feared that vibrations from passing flights were damaging their foundations.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
She also accused Armenia of making "unacceptable and harmful" statements that were damaging to the prospects for a peace settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023
But my father says that Jackway, the watchman, must have slept like the dead if he didn’t hear the marauders while they were damaging all that apparatus.
From The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery by Gertrude W. Morrison
