photograph
noun
a picture produced by photography.
were photographing
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past progressiveof photograph.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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A group of friends who were photographing the monolith captured the removal last Friday night, then shared the images on Instagram.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2020
“The photographers in the West were photographing someone else’s struggle,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
“We were photographing the glare coming off the ocean recently in California,” he said of himself and an assistant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2017
The people we were photographing introduced us to other people.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2015
However, it was not long after we emerged from the trees that we perceived they were photographing squarely in our direction.
From The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
