divide
verb (used with object)
to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
were dividing
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past progressiveof divide.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 found that mutations were spread out, suggesting that cells were dividing all over the tumour.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
At his death they were dividing their time between homes in Sarasota and on Beaver Island in Michigan.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
We write it as if we were dividing two fractions.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
When many college-owned nonprofit stations were dividing programming between news and classical music, Ruth Seymour, KCRW’s general manager from 1978 to 2010, was advocating for adventurous contemporary music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
All were dividing coming and hearing and taking and going and agreeing and staying.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
