were playing
- past progressive of play.
Example Sentences
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"If Scotland were playing anybody else in the world apart from England I'd be supporting them," MP Karl Turner posted, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
His relatives were playing tennis in a park in Indiana and 18-year-old Parks was watching in a wheelchair having been paralysed in a freestyle skiing accident in Utah a few months earlier.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Hedge funds and short-term traders were playing the Nasdaq addition,” said Jay Hatfield, chief executive officer at Infrastructure Capital Advisors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
By mid-June, the Secrets were playing local bars and biker parties in the middle of nowhere, and I was head over heels in love with the drummer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The more I thought about it, the more the feeling grew in me that it was wrong; it was as if he were playing some kind of a trick on me.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
