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
Lights were gleaming in the far distance, marking the position of the city in which the guests of Antiochus, preceded by torch-bearers, were wending their way back to their several homes.
From Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History by A. L. O. E.
Long files of women, calabash on head, were wending up from the stream, singing as they walked, or exchanging jests and laughter, their soft, rich voices echoing melodiously upon the evening stillness.
From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
Church bells pealed out the call for divine worship and streams of well-dressed people were wending their way to the sanctuaries.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd
