sow
verb (used with object)
to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
were sowing
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past progressiveof sow.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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And Interior Minister Mr Estok accused the media of contributing to the climate that led to the 59-year-old's shooting, telling a press conference: "Many of you were those who were sowing this hatred."
From BBC ● May 15, 2024
His occasional stumbling performances in public were sowing doubts that he was really up to the job.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2021
"We don't know whether these companies were sowing favor with Trump by paying his friend, or whether his friend was defrauding these companies by purporting to sow influence on their behalf," she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2018
Actually, it was largely New Yorkers who were sowing the chaos.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2016
"But the seeds of it were sowing some time before."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
