were evening
- past progressive of even.
Example Sentences
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Among the most popular forms of relaxation at the summit were evening movies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Gone with them were evening dresses and white shirt fronts.
From Russia in 1919 by Ransome, Arthur
They had one another to dine; there were evening parties, with dancing and without dancing.
From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean
