perfect
adjective
matching in every detail the definition of an ideal type of something.
were perfecting
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past progressiveof perfect.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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While others were perfecting their sourdough loaves or getting into bird-watching during the pandemic, Facundo Monteiro Kempf, a 35-year-old who works in cybersecurity for Microsoft, was memorizing Burgundian vineyard classifications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Multiple employees were perfecting the already-perfect plateaus of bell peppers and apples in the produce section.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
When not training, they played a lot of pool, cards and PlayStation’s Formula One game; they also were perfecting their TikTok challenges.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
In the 1950s, regional doo-wop groups such as the Clovers and Sonny Til and the Orioles were perfecting their close-harmony singing.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2021
In extreme Evangelicalism outside our Church, the followers of Wesley, regardless of their founder’s injunction not to form a separate sect, were perfecting their system when the reign began.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
