recline
verb (used without object)
to lean or lie back; rest in a recumbent position.
were reclining
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past progressiveof recline.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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Patients, ranging from the very young to the elderly, were reclining in Barcaloungers as nurses and physicians intravenously administered potent anti-inflammatory drugs.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2015
Perhaps I shall shatter some false axioms on which we were reclining.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three passengers in gas masks were reclining on the mattress, waving insanely.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had finished their day’s journey, and were reclining under a great talauma tree—a species of magnolia, with very large leaves—by the edge of a little glade.
From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid
This party were reclining on the turf, smoking, or giving the finishing touch to their rifles and smooth-bore guns, which they had been engaged in cleaning.
From Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
