fare
noun
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
were faring
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past progressiveof fare.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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He heard the battalion commander checking in with the groups, asking how they were faring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
He told me, he thought the inner city areas were faring worst.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025
I was eager to report on how they were faring in the new, explicitly aspiring democratic Russia.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2024
A reporting trip to see how Latino voters were faring as the presidential election approached was as good a reason as any.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
She would be wondering where they were, how they were faring, what kind of work they had found.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
