free
adjective
enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery.
were freeing
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past progressiveof free.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 government has previously said that Budget was a necessary package to fill what it called a black hole in the public finances, and other changes were freeing up properties for first-time buyers.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
"They thought they were freeing the Falklands from the British yoke but they were soon sorted out on that," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2022
Jefferson is a guy that said, “All men are created equal,” but kept slaves when others were freeing them.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2018
“We were freeing hostages continuously,” he told a television interviewer.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2015
To his surprise he realized, after a moment, that they were loosening the bonds, that they were freeing his arms and legs and removing the folds over his mouth and eyes.
From The Mark of the Knife by Clayton H. Ernst
