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
Her mind was untroubled by the spiritual problems which were vexing the minds around her; to Elizabeth indeed they were not only unintelligible, they were a little ridiculous.
From History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green
Single lines in it often went to the bottom of the questions that were vexing me.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
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
