garden
noun
a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
were gardening
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past progressiveof garden.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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“Some of my earliest memories were gardening with my parents and getting to enjoy having homemade salsa and tending to our own herb garden,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2015
Usually I am,’ said Hotchkiss … Some of the other victims were gardening or hiking.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2012
Dame Agatha herself looked as if she had been raised on a good golf course, although her main hobbies were gardening, and buying and redecorating houses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madam Gillin and her daughter Norah were gardening as he rode past their hedge, and the former hallooed to him to stop.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
Some of them were gardening and making little bowers about their huts.
From The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs
