wend
verb (used with object)
to pursue or direct (one's way).
were wending
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past progressiveof wend.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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Immigration authorities also used to put many deportation proceedings on hold while visa applications were wending through the system, as long as the person appeared for regular check-ins.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2017
The night Mr. MacDuckston and I ate at Nagi, for example, we were wending our way through a crowded section of Shibuya when he spied a line of young people extending into the street.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2010
The immediate neighborhood into which we were wending was unknown to me, though I saw familiar landmarks.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
One summer's day," Thus he commenced beside a crackling hearth Whilst the storm roared without, "a fresh bright noon, Us men were wending homeward from the fields, Where all the breezy morning we had toiled.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
Across the river, on the opposite bank, bands of women, enveloped in black and walking in Indian file on the yellow sands, carrying water-jars on their heads, were wending their way to their mud villages.
From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer
