fashion
noun
a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc..
were fashioning
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past progressiveof fashion.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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The mission-style homes they built, Holliday said, were “a way of them expressing these new identities they were fashioning for themselves.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2019
We were fashioning it with our hands, with pieces of things cut, drilled, bent, glued, and repurposed, and, as Thomas Paine remarked, imitating God’s creative capacity.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2018
Why, he wondered, did Yale insist on a “Girder Gothic” faux cathedral while great minds elsewhere were fashioning a new age of minimalist, transparent, unsentimental architecture?
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2014
Scientists who had passed to "the other side" were fashioning an exceptional human being, a posthumously designed messiah-child who would deliver humankind from chaos and bring peace to the world.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2011
People were fashioning makeshift gurneys from baby carriages and trunks nailed to roller skates, pulling them themselves.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
