deport
verb (used with object)
to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
were deporting
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past progressiveof deport.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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They initially told him they were deporting him to his home country, which he thinks was done "to terrorize us."
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Now 98, Frankenstein survived the holocaust by going into hiding in 1943 when the Nazis were deporting thousands of Jews from Berlin to Auschwitz.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2022
He decided to head to Germany since Turkey and Greece were deporting Afghans at the time.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
A return to work, under certain conditions, might have been arranged but for the news which flashed through Budapest one day last week: the Russians were deporting Hungarians.
From Time Magazine Archive
You didn’t tell me why they were deporting you.”
From The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
