route
noun
a course, way, or road for passage or travel.
were routing
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past progressiveof route.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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After Harbaugh served his first suspension, the Wolverines were routing overmatched opponents while facing potentially tougher obstacles off the field.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Just for a moment, on this terrible day, it seemed things were routing back to normal in Squirrel Hill.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2018
All night long excited Hungarian reporters were routing royalists out of bed to learn if Otto was attempting to seize Hungary's vacant throne.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hogs had returned and were routing among our camp-furniture.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And had he not heard a dreadful roaring, as if all the cattle on Faldonside Hill were routing at once?
From The Gold Of Fairnilee by Andrew Lang
