design
verb (used with object)
to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of.
were designing
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past progressiveof design.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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Rivals believed Horner was doing it out of concerns that the engine Red Bull were designing for next year in their new in-house facility will be uncompetitive compared to Mercedes.
From BBC β Jul. 9, 2025
“If we were designing it from scratch, we might not design it the way we have it now,” Kate Lowe, a planning professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, told me.
From Slate β Apr. 14, 2025
The new study grew out of the group's focus on filtration during the height of the Covid pandemic, when the researchers were designing face masks to filter out the virus.
From Science Daily β Nov. 25, 2024
The importation of larger stocks of ice reduced costs, while simultaneously, innovators were designing apparatus for mechanical freezing.
From Salon β Aug. 8, 2023
Just as the period’s architects designed buildings from the same limited collection of motifs and shapes, Haydn and his contemporaries were designing music from a similarly limited catalogue.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
