fabricate
verb (used with object)
to make by art or skill and labor; construct.
were fabricating
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past progressiveof fabricate.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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Storch later was found to be at the center of a scandal involving several jailhouse snitches who were fabricating confessions in order to receive reduced jail time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2018
District Judge Mark Mastroianni found that Cosby’s statements—amounting to an accusation that the women were fabricating their accounts of being raped—can be found true or false, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
From Time ● Oct. 9, 2015
The Brotherhood said police were "fabricating" the charges.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2013
When they perceived that the strangers were fabricating canoes, they shook their heads and gave them to understand that the river was not navigable.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
Some were fabricating earthen pots, and all the females seemed actively employed.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 by Various
