screen
noun
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
were screening
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past progressiveof screen.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 were running our sets. We were screening well. Guys were getting shots that we had gotten the first couple of games in the season,” Davis said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
Separately, a review at the time by the Center on Reinventing Public Education found that only 14 out of 100 large and urban districts were screening students routinely.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2022
The train they were screening was the Sunset Limited, Train 2.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
My partner John DeLuca and I were screening “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” at the Cannes Film Festival and Johnny Depp warned us that the French sometimes “boo”—so we were prepared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2018
But the years, apparently so void, were screening a strange and undreamed-of part for him to play.
From Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne
