enfilade
were enfilading
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past progressiveof enfilade.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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From this spot Tibetan riflemen were enfilading our troops held in reserve.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler
Men, not so much now to sustain the Manchesters as to force back the Turks who were enfilading them from the "Haricot" and from that redoubt held for awhile by the R.N.D. on their right.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton
But the Dutch had reached the summit, and were enfilading the "nek" and the wholePg 214 extremity of the hill from our left.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Henry W. Nevinson
