export
verb (used with object)
to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc.
were exporting
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past progressiveof export.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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"It sounds very strange or very bizarre today, but we were exporting to Kabul," where the Taliban now govern with their strict interpretation of Islam, Bhandara said.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
By 1833, the Chinese were exporting twenty-eight times more tea and welcoming thirteen times more foreign ships than before.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
By 1940, plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia were exporting more palm oil than all of Africa.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2021
His bear was also an instant hit, and soon the Steiffs were exporting thousands of teddies to Britain, the US and other parts of the world.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2013
American firms were exporting to the allied powers, whose almoner Great Britain was, commodities of a value of $100,000,000 a month in excess of the amount they were buying abroad.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
