were tattooing
- past progressive of tattoo.
Example Sentences
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This year, he published a finding showing that people were tattooing with needles made of turkey bones in what is now Tennessee about 3,500 years ago.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
In 2019, Mr. Deter-Wolf was an author of a study that showed that the ancestors of modern Puebloan people were tattooing with cactus spines some 2,000 years ago in what is now the American Southwest.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
Ms. Bosworth’s biography, at a bit more than half the length, squeezed more onto every page, as if she were tattooing while Mr. Lubow paints billboards.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2016
At one stage they were tattooing straight on to bone.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
