rig
were rigging
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past progressiveof rig.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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The junk bond salesmen, meanwhile, told us to our faces they were rigging the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2020
In Beaverton, as in Saudi Arabia, girls were rigging their own suits, Almadhoun said: “There are some solutions, but not good ones.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
For instance, investigators spent years cross-referencing trading data with old electronic communications to make their case against a group of global banks whose traders were rigging foreign exchange benchmarks.
From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2016
Collier, who would at least get a new water well, and the crews who were rigging down, looked for bright spots.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2016
The engineers were rigging a series of lights to help them bring the cable to the bomb: she could hear their voices not far away, shouting commands, and see the lights wavering through the trees.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
