garner
verb (used with object)
to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
were garnering
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past progressiveof garner.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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She was writing after Audre Lorde and other lesbian activist writers first broke through — and just as Latina authors including Sandra Cisneros, Helena María Viramontes and Ana Castillo were garnering mainstream attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
The new vehicle could carve a path for the company to regain some of the momentum it had when its cars were garnering rave reviews.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2016
They were garnering fats which Britain desperately needed, particularly in the years after World War Two.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2014
The water-sellers were garnering a harvest; fruit- and sweetmeat-peddlers were dreaming of open-fronted shops and how to defeat the tax-collector.
From Guns of the Gods by Talbot Mundy
The leases had all but run out; the middlemen were garnering their latest profits; in the spring there would come a wholesale demolition, and model-lodgings would thereafter occupy the site.
From The Nether World by George Gissing
