wear
verb (used with object)
to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like.
were wearing
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past progressiveof wear.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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According to several women reporters, security staff conducted unusual pat-downs of some women journalists to check whether they were wearing bras and might be Femen activists prepared to reveal chests painted with slogans.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Some were dressed in Palestinian jerseys, had tied Palestinian and Irish flags to themselves, and many were wearing keffiyeh scarves, a symbol of Palestinian identity.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“It’s not going to stop us, but I would like if they didn’t look like they were wearing rags.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
All of the humans were wearing pajamas, and so were some of the dogs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The head was very dark brown—almost black—in such sharp contrast to the white neck that the bird looked as though it were wearing a kind of hood.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
