flex
verb (used with object)
to bend, as a part of the body.
were flexing
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past progressiveof flex.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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Before they were flexing in a secret way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
When the patches detected that the subjects were flexing their muscles during lifting, the devices called for help.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
President Andrea Agnelli was still at the helm, Juventus were flexing their muscles after missing out on consecutive Serie A titles to the Milan clubs, and fans longed for trophies.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023
“I felt like we were flexing muscle when that Chinese delegation looked across the table and saw us — an African-American woman sitting next to a Chinese-American man, both representing the United States,” she said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2020
The answer, surely, is that they had recendy acquired these extraordinary new gifts - the notation of music and the multiple layering of voices - and they were flexing their intellectual muscles.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
