were dismantling
- past progressive of dismantle.
Example Sentences
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I guided her on to the pavement and through the streets as workers were dismantling the barriers and collecting rubbish.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024
And so he literally, if you think about it, he and Constance Baker Motley and the other all-Black legal team, they literally were dismantling segregation in America through their advocacy.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
Like other Chinese business people, she bought scrap metal from North Koreans who were dismantling factories in order to buy food, according to a report in the Chinese-language Southern Weekly newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2017
“We are finished using it. They actually were dismantling that piece when it happened,” Hampton said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2015
I tried to make out what they were doing, but except that they were dismantling the machinery, whatever it might be, I could make nothing of it.
From The Mystery of the Green Ray by Le Queux, William
