were outlining
- past progressive of outline.
Example Sentences
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Inside the meeting room in Russell Senate Office Building, Republican senators and administration officials, like Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, were outlining the first steps of what’s being called “phase three” legislation addressing the coronavirus pandemic.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020
These people, the agile Pulcinellas of Manhattan's Grub Street,* were outlining the policy of a magazine they had decided to publish— The New Yorker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as the dawn wind was rising, though, and the cottonwoods were outlining themselves against the eastern sky, stumbling footsteps near the tent wakened both Diana and Na-che, and they opened the tent flap, hastily.
From The Enchanted Canyon by Morrow, Honoré
They did it in a sort of curve, almost as if they were outlining the top of a door.
From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John
Audacious and enormous plans were outlining themselves in his brain.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
