people
noun
persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general.
were peopling
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past progressiveof people.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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"I think," said Sedley, "if I were peopling this scene, you know, I should put my hero in that Castle of Ware—that is, if I could invent a romance, which, of course, I couldn't."
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The girl, pulling up her skirts, began to dance and shout, and to behave like a virago, among the throng of loiterers who were peopling the pavement.
From A Second Coming by Richard Marsh
