toddle
verb (used without object)
to move with short, unsteady steps, as a young child.
had been toddling
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past perfect progressiveof toddle.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He loved the girl, had loved her since they had been toddling children playing in the hills together.
From In Old Kentucky by Edward Marshall
At this point old Quiller, who had been toddling about in the November sunshine outside, pushed open the door in a state of breathless excitement.
From The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
The House, which, to his thinking, had by no means been august while Mr Brown had been toddling through his speech, now became awful.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
