shoe
noun
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
were shoeing
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past progressiveof shoe.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 hope to run Imperial Monarch but when we were shoeing him he just had a slight little pulse in his foot, we hope that doesn't turn into anything," he said.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2012
The Dean confided to Phil and Patches, one day when he had escaped to the blacksmith shop where the men were shoeing their horses, that the professor was harmlessly insane.
From When A Man's A Man by Harold Bell Wright
And there was a blacksmith's forge there, and they were shoeing horses, and the hoofs fizzled and smoked, and smelt so jolly!
From The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
As a child I always thought that the Angels were shoeing the horses which drew the chariot of the sun, and that these were stray sparks from the Heavenly Anvil.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Faith Baldwin
One or two lanthorns just kindled glimmered here and there in the semi-darkness; and in a corner two smiths were shoeing a horse.
From The House of the Wolf; a romance by Stanley John Weyman
