were interfering
- past progressive of interfere.
Example Sentences
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DHS has claimed that cases where citizens were detained happened only because they were interfering with other arrests or otherwise breaking the law.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
TraPac on its website said its terminal would be closed for the first shift because protests were interfering with the entrance gate.
From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022
Weirdly, in experiments centuries later in which researchers took care to shine only one photon at a time toward the wall, the interference pattern remained, as if a single particle were interfering with itself.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 8, 2020
I used to write with music playing in the background till I realized the rhythms were interfering with my work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2016
The Uganda station has since been broken up by order of the king, as the Arabs were interfering too much with his subjects.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
