interact
verb (used without object)
to act one upon another.
were interacting
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past progressiveof interact.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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People were interacting with the movie as it played and it was remarkable.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
"I wish we did not land there after the first casualty, because along with us, there were a hundred more passengers, and they were interacting with the islanders," he said.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
National Highways, which runs England's motorways, blamed an "anomaly" in how variable speed cameras were interacting with signs on some A roads and motorways.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
"There had to be some other explanation. So we wanted to look at the receptor at atomic scale to see in detail how the sugar and receptor were interacting."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Over time, social media went from a novel new way that kids were interacting with one another to the primary way.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2023
