even
adjective
were evening
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past progressiveof even.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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There were evening meetings with 50 or so Washington bureau chiefs of the major newspapers, magazines and wire services, visiting publishers, Governors, mayors and maybe even dogcatchers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the most popular forms of relaxation at the summit were evening movies.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were evening dresses here, I caught the shimmer of silver over the top of the white bags that enfolded them.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
They had one another to dine; there were evening parties, with dancing and without dancing.
From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
They were evening shadows now, for the sky, pink like the inside of a shell, had no clouds upon its surface.
From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Sir Hugh Walpole
