wire
noun
a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
were wiring
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past progressiveof wire.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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And so I think in the meantime, some of them were wiring money to Alameda Research to get credited on FTX.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Another day, a bunch of us were wiring in the meadow in torrential rain.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 3, 2016
The place was bustling with workers who were wiring the minibus with sensors for self driving.
From The Verge ● Jun. 16, 2016
When the first cable entrepreneurs were wiring cities, local governments typically granted a single franchise for each community, or divided the territory among a few companies.
From The Verge ● Aug. 19, 2014
Perhaps these represented five different friends who had asked her—all women, just as perhaps now Mary and Cissy, or one or other of them, were wiring by deputy.
From In the Cage by Henry James
