were furnishing

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of furnish.
  furnish

  verb (used with object)

  to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.

Example Sentences

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were furnishing

King Philip II's weedy, emaciated aristocrats, shunning the world with proud incompetence, vain of blood and sharp of feature, were furnishing Miguel de Cervantes with ideas for his best-seller Don Quixote.

From Time Magazine Archive

An unidentified Kurdish chieftain told the Associated Press that the Russians were furnishing arms and technicians to train the tribesmen for "a general drive for a free Kurdistan."

From Time Magazine Archive

Using sticks, they had outlined a house and were furnishing it with debris they found in the sand.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

He found them all very peaceable, and their shops open; they were furnishing supplies therein, and most of them were eating breakfast.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

When last I heard from Paris your doings were furnishing the Quartier St. Germain with a good deal of amusement and gossip.'

From Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Related Words

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