navigate
verb (used with object)
to move on, over, or through (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft.
were navigating
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past progressiveof navigate.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 findings provide the first direct evidence that animals were navigating with Earth's magnetic field at least 97 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
During the same period that Google and DeepMind were navigating their new relationship, a rival lab by the name of OpenAI had begun working on a large language model.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The majority of those fatalities happened as hikers were navigating the cables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024
“Then, a few weeks later, he gets traded over here,” Justin Turner said during a recent batting-practice conversation in San Francisco, where the Dodgers were navigating a tension-filled N.L. division series against the Giants.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
The birds were navigating by the shining light of stars.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
