gravitate
verb (used without object)
to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
were gravitating
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past progressiveof gravitate.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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By the early 2020s, Kang and Alice Huang were gravitating toward the business of cloud computing—providing remote computing power to corporate clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Women and more health-conscious consumers were gravitating to a new chicken-salad sandwich.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
"Unfortunately, many people were gravitating toward conspiracy theories prior to the pandemic," Manly observed, "yet this trend has intensified during the pandemic due to surges in online time, anxiety, and feelings of helpless."
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2021
In 2012, Robbins and his producing partner, Joe Davola, recognized that pre-teens and teenagers weren’t watching TV like previous generations but were gravitating to stars on Google’s YouTube platform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2019
For example, in both rural public libraries where AM was made available, observers reported that the older people with personal remembrances of the turn of the century were gravitating to the Detroit collection.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
