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
He had marched against the Quadi who were vexing the frontier on the bank of the Danube.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
At last he came to a town where the rats were vexing the people very much.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
Something less than a hundred years ago, similar questions were vexing the American public.
From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Alice B. Van Doren
Other things were vexing him in those days.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
