lodge
noun
a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
were lodging
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past progressiveof lodge.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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The iconic Watergate Hotel, it turned out, was one of the luxury hostelries where the troops were lodging — largely a contingent from Maine.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2021
After that were lodging, island transportation, recreation, and of course food.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
Indeed, this old widow discharged herself of that portion of the Morning and Evening Service as if she were lodging a complaint on oath and applying for a warrant before a magistrate.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
We were lodging down in the country, an orphan friend of mine named George, and myself, and one night, coming home late from some dissolving views we found the family had gone to bed.
From Evergreens by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Often they would slip away out of their hands, just as they were lodging them safely on the top, and fall over on one side of the wall, and break to pieces.
From Jonas on a Farm in Winter by Jacob Abbott
