were sunning

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of sun.
  sun

  noun

  the star that is the central body of the earth's solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 25 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.

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were sunning

Pouring with sweat, we dutifully followed arrows on hand-painted signs that led down a precarious trail to some forbidding rocks upon which a few people were sunning themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2015

Two weeks before Revel’s scheduled closing, vacationers were sunning themselves on an 11th-floor pool deck lavishly planted with grasses and shrubs to resemble a natural shoreline.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2014

Near the first onager, three Earthborn were sunning themselves on the rocks.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Down below, a bunch of sea lions were sunning themselves on the rocks.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

Several people were sunning themselves at 11 o'clock! sitting on deck and reading.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott

Related Words

• star
• sunlight