like
adjective
of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc..
were liking
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past progressiveof like.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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“Why would Simon & Schuster drop it? Because apparently it already had a huge amount of success. So people were liking it,” said Chakrabarty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
My dummy account, Mohammed, was a profile set to private and designed to look similar to the accounts of younger Moroccan people who were liking and commenting on the posts advertising crossings.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Within an hour classmates and neighbors were liking it, and the local newspaper picked up the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2023
“I kept trying it because other guys were liking it,” Tucci said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
And she felt that people were liking her, admiring her, and that always put her at her best.
From Fidelity A Novel by Susan Glaspell
