group
noun
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation.
were grouping
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past progressiveof group.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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The german was just ended, and the participants were grouping themselves on the gallery to be photographed, the usual custom for perpetuating the memory of these exercises, which only take place every other morning.
From Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner
The next moment the boys of the front rows had joined those of the rear and were grouping themselves together to discuss the situation.
From The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco
He remarks: "In certain poems which were grouping themselves around the _Iliad and _Odyssey, we meet data absolutely opposed to the conventional style of the Epic."
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
While Christianity was conquering the world, the believers in its doctrines were grouping themselves into communities or churches.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
It was a farther distance and they were grouping.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
