milk
noun
an opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young.
were milking
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past progressiveof milk.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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On a brisk December morning, Mr. Mehuren and one of his daughters were milking their Holsteins in the small milking parlor, in six shifts of eight cows.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
Previously, however, the women had reported developing pustules on their hands from the cows they were milking.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2021
By the ’80s, they were milking as many hits as possible from an album to convince you to buy it—from Thriller to Hysteria.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2017
But far from helping turn businesses around, Mills and his associates were milking them for huge fees and using their relationship with the bank to bully the business owners and strip them of their assets.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2017
The peasant girls were milking their cows and singing with their usual merriment.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Lt-Col. Pinkney
