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
We then write it as if we were dividing two fractions.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 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
Rather than encoding individuals’ faces, like the Jennifer Aniston neuron in the hippocampus, the face patch neurons were dividing images into smaller regions and encoding specific features such as hairline width, Chang says.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 8, 2018
Another couple were dividing their meat in a queer way; for one took all the fat, and the other all the lean.
From Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. by Louisa May Alcott
