vacation
noun
a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday.
were vacationing
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past progressiveof vacation.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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All were vacationing in a waterfront rental home that was engulfed by the blaze in the pre-dawn hours Friday along North Virginia Dare Trail.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Several months later my husband and I were vacationing on Cape Cod.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Nakajjigo and her husband Ludovic Michaud were vacationing in eastern Utah, visiting the region’s national parks months after their wedding.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
The student’s parents are stuck in New Zealand, where they were vacationing, so he is on his own in their comfy home in the countryside.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
When my wife, Marie, and I were vacationing in Australia one summer, we decided to visit a site with well-preserved Aboriginal rock paintings in the desert near the town of Menindee.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
