subscribe
verb (used with object)
to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment.
were subscribing
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past progressiveof subscribe.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’ve seen an increase over the past few years, especially under COVID, because more people were subscribing to streaming services versus traditional pay TV,” Gerstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
In 1926 it was claimed that when Americans were subscribing millions for starving Germans he was feeding his 80 hounds on tenderloin steaks, offering creamed sweetbreads to his lapdog.
From Time Magazine Archive
Worse, everyone knew that the new circulation, so dearly bought, meant nothing; that bribed readers could not be depended on to stick; that many were subscribing to more papers than they could possibly read.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last June, scanning a list of magazines to which New York City's public schools were subscribing for the year, she saw that the Nation, 83-year-old journal of opinion, was among the missing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among his numerous suggestions to Congress for cancelling eventually the eighty million dollars of the national debt, to which business men of the Northern States were subscribing freely, was an excise.
From The United States of America, Part 1 by Edwin Erle Sparks
