insure
verb (used with object)
to guarantee against loss or harm.
were insuring
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past progressiveof insure.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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In other words, the businesses were insuring the bank against interest rate falls.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2015
None of the sellers appeared to care very much which bonds they were insuring.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2011
Thus, all the time that the wretches were under the idea that their crime was unknown, and themselves unsuspected, they were insuring the means of their own detection and capture.
From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by C. J. de Lacey
