were exploring
- past progressive of explore.
Example Sentences
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Organisers confirmed earlier this year that they were exploring ways to enable more people to take part, after a record 1.33 million people entered the ballot for next year's event.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
“A lot of them were exploring otherness and self-discovery through the archetypes of the genre because it was a way to express it at a time when those ideas were taboo,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
One case began with a man named Daniel Hewitt, an independent recruiter who sent out a LinkedIn message saying clients based in London were exploring opportunities to finance data centers in the Balkans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Martindale and her research team, including Stéphane Bodin of Aarhus University, were exploring the rugged valley to study the ecology of ancient reef systems that once existed there when the area lay beneath the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
As he was Windexing the new house, however, Chapter Eleven and I were exploring it.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
