dot
noun
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
were dotting
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past progressiveof dot.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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As far south as Albuquerque, ski tows and warming huts were dotting the Rockies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early wildflowers were dotting the deep green of the fields, and the sky was clean and blue.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
At first Middleton could not distinguish the small dark objects, that were dotting the dusky clouds, but as they came swiftly onward, first their forms, and then their heavy waving wings, became distinctly visible.
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
Into this unfriendly world, when the painted trilliums and the purple wake-robins were dotting every half-exposed glade, was born a sturdy bull-calf.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
New houses were dotting the town here and there, some of them large and handsome with spacious grounds.
From The Little Immigrant by Eva Stern
