Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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That was obvious in the northern United States, where about 1,000 people were golfing last month in a snow-starved Minneapolis during what the state is calling “the Lost Winter of 2023-24.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
He said some of his neighbors were golfing buddies of Payne, a Louisville standout, and wanted to "give him grief" for the game.
From Fox News ● Feb. 23, 2021
Last good advice you gave: I told my dad when we were golfing, "You can do it."
From Time Magazine Archive
A dreary spectacled youth in resentful charge of the office—his principals, it being Saturday afternoon, were golfing the happy hours away—professed blank ignorance of everything.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball
