vex
verb (used with object)
were vexing
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past progressiveof vex.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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“That’s baseball — 162 games,” said Boone, who insisted that neither that inning nor the night as a whole were vexing.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2018
In another case I saw a woman who rushed into the street objurgating the spirits, and in the next breath humbly supplicating them, who, she said, were vexing her child that was lying in convulsions.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill
At last he came to a town where the rats were vexing the people very much.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill
Other things were vexing him in those days.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
Single lines in it often went to the bottom of the questions that were vexing me.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John
