decorate
verb (used with object)
to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish.
were decorating
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past progressiveof decorate.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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All week behind the scenes, arena staff were decorating Galen Center with March Madness stickers on the front doors and hanging banners up on the railings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
And women in some Confederate states were decorating graves before the war’s end.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2023
In Michigan last year, a crowd of protesters assembled on the lawn of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, chanting into megaphones as she and her 4-year-old son were decorating their home for Christmas.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2021
They had abandoned their beads and were decorating one another’s arms with blue Biro ink, gouging the names of their beloveds into their flesh.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
Friends of the couple had built a kind of bower from supple willow branches and now they were decorating it with blossoms and ferns.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
