Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Wouldn’t you let your friends know, just like that, if they were harping on some other point that got on your nerves?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
"Just accomplishing the goal. Have to get in first, and that's kind of what we were harping on," Miller said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2018
“It’s something we were harping on all week, but that’s what was happening,” cornerback Delvin Breaux said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2016
The lawmakers were touring what appeared to be a peaceful market in Baghdad to make the point that U.S. journalists were harping too much on killings.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2014
He believed that elves or Bragi, the song God, were harping in the air.
From Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century by Felix Dahn
