filter
noun
any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
were filtering
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past progressiveof filter.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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Soon, real and doctored versions of those photos were filtering their way across the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
My goal was to see how these programs were filtering the nearly 3-month-old coronavirus crisis.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2020
Worshippers from all three were filtering in, many of them older, taking their time.
From Fox News ● Oct. 30, 2018
Stories were filtering back to headquarters about Francis’s extravagant banquets in ports such as Singapore; Bali; Tokyo; Phuket, Thailand; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2016
By this time several other of his assistants were filtering in and out of the small anteroom alongside the stage.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
