Examples of 'we were about' in a sentence

Meaning of "we were about"

We were about can refer to a situation where a group of people were close to doing something or experiencing something, but it didn't actually happen or was interrupted

How to use "we were about" in a sentence

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we were about
Because we were about to get our hearts broken.
Tom got home just as we were about to leave.
We were about to ask you the same thing.
I lost him when we were about to sit down.
We were about to ask you the same question.
Just the guy we were about to look for.
We were about to send advances to the bottling plants.
You only asked because we were about to explode.
I think we were about halfway to the front porch.
Trying to make us second guess what we were about to do.
The door we were about to open when we woke up.
I will not do the mistakes we were about to commit.
But we were about to run into something else.
We all felt like we were about to lose it.
We were about to ask you that very question.

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Someone leaked information that we were about to sell.
But just when we were about to go through with it.
That no one would forgive what we were about to do.
We were about to bring everyone up to speed on slayer mythology.
We had no inkling of what we were about to walk into.
We were about to take off and see a movie.
He died over the weekend as we were about to go to trial.
We were about to leave you high and dry.
Miguel was scared about the challenge we were about to do.
I feel that we were about to make some progress.
It was definitely one hell of a night we were about to have.
We were about to tell you the same thing.
Just when it seemed that we were about.
We were about five or six years old.
Did you tell him we were about to.
We were about to blow our reputation on two continents.
Disaster struck every time we were about to touch.
We were about to say the same thing to you.
We had no idea the adventure we were about to embark on.
We were about to settle down to our everyday routine.
Then the captain announced we were about to land.
I thought we were about finding the right person.
It was the perfect location for what we were about to do.
I just wish we were about to find you sooner.
I think he was actually just as surprised as we were about what was happening.
We were about to have our first baby.
I did not know we were about to get nasty.
We were about to bring down the entire building.
How worried we were about you then.
We were about to foreclose until you came along.
Three days ago we were about to tell your kids.
We were about to spend the entire evening together.
I guess it began when we were about eight years old.
We were about to watch her favorite soap opera.
You would think we were about to exterminate.

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