inject
verb (used with object)
to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue.
were injecting
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past progressiveof inject.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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Operators were injecting wastewater with little concern over how it might travel underground or its impact on reservoir pressure, they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Workers spent the night purging natural gas from the pipeline and were injecting nitrogen, “which will extinguish the fire” burning in the underground vault, Chevron spokesman Cary Wages told reporters.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2018
“What they didn’t realize was that in every aspect prior to college, they were injecting the entrepreneurial bravado in me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2016
Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil.
From Time Magazine Archive
What they were injecting and why, I did not know.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
