reflect
verb (used with object)
to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface.
were reflecting
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past progressiveof reflect.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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Mulberry said rising longer-term Treasury yields on Monday were reflecting that uncertainty.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
"I can see they were all in black and shiny and the car lights were reflecting off him," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023
But in Feinstein’s hometown, San Franciscans like Chacón were reflecting just as much on her local influence as they were her time in Washington.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
Shooting them was about how their bodies and faces were reflecting light and honoring their performances was showing them in their "best light," so to speak.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2023
For some moments neither mother nor daughter spoke, both were reflecting anxiously on what they had just heard.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull
