resemble
verb (used with object)
to be like or similar to.
were resembling
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past progressiveof resemble.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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Bits of Harrogate were resembling a “ghost town” for much of the week, the local Chamber of Commerce told the Harrogate Advertiser, suggesting there should be some form of compensation for lost trade.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2019
Hideous, gruesome carvings they were, resembling some futuristic sculpture of to-day, for the artist who had fashioned them had given hardly more than a hint of the finished representation.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry
