window-shop
verb (used without object)
to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
were window-shopping
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past progressiveof window-shop.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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Trouble was, complained the island's merchants, the strollers were window-shopping and little else.
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