stow
were stowing
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past progressiveof stow.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 doctor was busy stowing his bottles away, and the steward was making the pantry shipshape, and our heroes themselves were stowing away all loose gear in their cabins.
From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables
Still dressed in a blue blouse, beneath which he wore a black suit, he smoked his pipe, and superintended the two porters in livery, who were stowing away the luggage in the great imperiale.
From A Start in Life by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
I got Pagan to come and act as interpreter while the rest were stowing the baggage, etc.
From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley
Into this craft the crane was lowering boxes, bags, and what-not, which three or four men were stowing away.
From A Rock in the Baltic by Robert Barr
When the men were stowing it the engines throbbed and the Miranda turned her head toward open water.
From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss
