were ingesting
- past progressive of ingest.
Example Sentences
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But we also found evidence from inland sites that people were ingesting freshwater aquatic plants, including lilies and pondweed.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023
In the Monterey Bay Canyon, Dr. Choy wanted to understand if certain species of filter feeders were ingesting microplastics and transporting them into food webs in deeper water.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
Those readers were more concerned about what they were ingesting than the conditions of the workers who were producing the food.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2020
Whether Americans were swigging it on legitimate doctors’ orders is indeterminate, but they were ingesting it one way or another in Italian-American restaurants, which began to develop their now-standard repertoire in the 1920s and ’30s.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2019
This time Ben swallowed faster as though he were ingesting his own saliva.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
