reconstruct
verb (used with object)
to construct again; rebuild; make over.
were reconstructing
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past progressiveof reconstruct.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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We discussed the character as if we were reconstructing his past.
From Time ● Mar. 5, 2010
But the very existence of the country depended upon the British army of occupation, and upon the work of the British officers who were reconstructing the Egyptian army.
From The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir
Fifty years ago the statesmen who were reconstructing Europe on the basis of nationality thought that they had found the relevant facts in the causes which limit the physical and mental homogeneity of nations.
From Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Graham Wallas
Only the Greeks were reconstructing a new civilization of the ruins of the one they had destroyed, and the Medes were becoming “formidable,” as an Assyrian inscription calls them, in central Asia.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Be that as it may, the quaint and interesting relics had just been dug up that week by the workmen who were reconstructing the freight yards of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
From A Pioneer Railway of the West by Maude Ward Lafferty
