visit
verb (used with object)
to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc..
were visiting
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past progressiveof visit.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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Ahmed said 12 of them were visiting West Mersea that day.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
According to Engels, she and her friend were visiting the brothers.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
My colleague Christopher Reynolds, who recently went with his wife and friends who were visiting from out of town, tells me “You really feel that the restaurant has been in that location since 1949.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
Volunteers from the Starenki foundation, which delivers food and essentials to the elderly, were visiting Teleschuk to check in on her.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
No one thought it strange that a boy and a girl, each carrying a book bag and an instrument case and who would normally be in school, were visiting a museum.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
