supply
verb (used with object)
to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite.
were supplying
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past progressiveof supply.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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Yet his own intelligence agencies have worried that Moscow and Beijing were supplying Tehran with intelligence to locate American targets and providing other military assistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Streets were deserted and most vehicles still on the road were supplying grocers and small local shops that were still open.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
"They had a duty to protect soldiers - they were supplying something that we needed to protect us," Mr Pettifer said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
Townsend, the congressional oversight expert, said the practice goes back to when President Truman was a senator and established a committee to investigate problems among contractors who were supplying the World War II effort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
There were reports that the stevedores were supplying certain patrons in England with tobacco of superior quality obtained by pilfering.
From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by G. Melvin Herndon
