mill
noun
a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
were milling
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past progressiveof mill.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 the Monday after KCON, I met up a second time with the members of Santos Bravos, who were milling about in the Hybe America offices in Santa Monica.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
And Gunn, who wrote and directed the episode, ensured those clues were milling about in plain view, albeit in the background, for the entire season.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2025
By 6 p.m., hundreds of people, mostly 20-somethings, were milling among the racks and drinking free cans of yerba mate.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
If larger creatures were milling around the ecosystem, they would have been buried alive as well.
From Scientific American ● May 10, 2023
In the wide arena in front of the main group of buildings, a hundred or so people, adults and children, were milling about: some in excitement, some in irritation, many just bewildered.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
