intersect
verb (used with object)
to cut or divide by passing through or across.
were intersecting
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past progressiveof intersect.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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“I realized that the lines of history were intersecting right there as I took the governorship.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2021
They were intersecting a forest of rather stunted trees, all blown one way by the wind, which made music of a peculiar melancholy among their branches.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Ernest W. Hornung
And these two great lines were intersecting lines.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
