were planting

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of plant.
  plant

  noun

  any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or the use of photosynthesis.

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were planting

When they tested the plants for herbicide resistance, they saw that the types of herbicides the plants were resistant to had shifted over time, likely due to changes in the varieties farmers were planting.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

Scott, responding to the piece this week, suggested that his opponents were planting these stories to distract voters from “our rise in the polls.”

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2023

Mr. O’Rourke continued to complain, saying that the Crouches’ yard was attracting rodents, deer, snakes and bats, and that they were planting shrubs and bushes in no particular order.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

"Not really," Biden said, before turning his attention back to the mangrove trees he and other world leaders were planting.

From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022

Early that spring, a few days before the new school year started, Baba and I were planting tulips in the garden.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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