prospect
noun
Usually prospects
were prospecting
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past progressiveof prospect.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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Pizzuto was camping with two other men near the town of McCall, in central Idaho, when he encountered 58-year-old Berta Herndon and her 37-year-old nephew Del Herndon, who were prospecting in the area.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
Pizzuto was camping with two other men when he encountered Berta Herndon, 58, and her nephew, Del Herndon, 37, who were prospecting in the area.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
International companies that were prospecting for oil a few years ago have now stopped work.
From Economist ● Nov. 12, 2015
Many of the rejects were "prospecting letters," mailings that fish for new clients and often hook only a 2% response -- plenty, by industry standards, to justify the flow.
From Time Magazine Archive
In two days I was sufficiently recovered in strength to be moved twenty miles down the trail to the cabin of some miners who were prospecting in that vicinity.
From Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 by Truman Everts
