furnish
verb (used with object)
to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
were furnishing
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past progressiveof furnish.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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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
I knew very well what her mind had gone back to—the days when she and I and my mother were furnishing and settling the house that would now become Captain Carey's home.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton
They were furnishing an instance of that immemorial "change of form to form" to which Mr. Stone had given the name of Life.
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
