outline
noun
the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
were outlining
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past progressiveof outline.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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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
And it must not be forgotten that in all such statements both were outlining only what appeared to them to be a natural and inevitable evolution.
From Violence and the Labor Movement by Robert Hunter
They were outlining a trip to the Orient together, when the back door blew open with a terrific bang, and a wind swept into the lodge with a coldness which chilled them both.
From Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Peirce
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 John Campbell
