invade
verb (used with object)
to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent.
were invading
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past progressiveof invade.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 2005, Kate’s lawyers asked newspaper editors to leave her alone, saying photographers were invading her private life.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
British Airways Flight 149 touched down at Kuwait International Airport in the early hours of August 2 1990 as Iraqi armed forces were invading.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2023
I never wanted to feel like we were invading anything, just that we were kind of adding to the multiplicity of a beautiful thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
“We all missed him those times he’d retreat but said little, thinking he was due the deference to work out whatever demons were invading his head.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
It all seemed very weedy and rank somehow, and thorns and bracken were invading the beds down near the bottom hedge.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
