transplant
verb (used with object)
to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
were transplanting
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past progressiveof transplant.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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Bailey’s lawyer, Frank Buttimer, said French authorities were transplanting a discredited Garda investigation to Paris with no new evidence.
From The Guardian ● May 26, 2019
Both partners felt, as they set about chopping down trees, that they were transplanting New England to the Northwest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The children were delighted to find ladybirds on the lettuces they were transplanting, and we also noticed how the cherries were ripening.
From The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray
One day all the women were transplanting rice, and it was found that Lona could do as much work as all her companions put together.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
