prelude
noun
a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
were preluding
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past progressiveof prelude.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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They were preluding a Pan-Pacific Buddhists' Conference to be held in Tokyo in 1934.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is scarcely a single English poet of consequence in the younger school who does not treat the strings of his lyre as though he were preluding with a slate-pencil upon a slate.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Edmund Gosse
