urinate
verb (used without object)
to pass or discharge urine.
were urinating
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past progressiveof urinate.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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State inspectors issued a report Aug. 18 that said some youths were urinating in their rooms at night because there were not enough officers on hand to let them out to use the bathroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
People, they said, were urinating in stairwells, stubbing out cigarettes on the walls, spitting in the elevator and propping open outside doors to admit strangers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
A Chinese rug rescued from her townhouse on the edge of Greenwich Village, where she has lived since the late ’90s, because the cats were urinating on it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2015
A familiar complaint was that some customers were urinating in the aisles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ben and the colonel were urinating in the ditch that paralleled the highway.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
