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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Instead tourists at sunlit picnic tables were photographing themselves.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Ten or 12 people were photographing the house on Thursday, he said, when he went there to spread fertilizer.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
David Bailey and Terry O’Neill became almost as famous as the people they were photographing.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2018
“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
I mean, I want to understand just exactly what happened in the scenes you were photographing today.
From The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
