grout
noun
a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
were grouting
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past progressiveof grout.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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Jack Halbert, Brad Miller and his son, Evan, of Green River Commercial Flooring, were grouting the final three.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
I saw those huge elephants whose long, flexible trunks were grouting and turning up the soil under the trees like a legion of serpents.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
