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
That extremely unwholesome menu you were outlining just now?
From Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Audacious and enormous plans were outlining themselves in his brain.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
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 Honoré Morrow
