trundle
verb (used with object)
to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll.
have been trundling
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present perfect progressiveof trundle.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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My own young mother died before I could remember her, and I was consigned to tutors when I should have been trundling hoops.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
Look, there’s the first peep of where the sun’s coming, and if we’d been boxing the compass all night we couldn’t have been trundling more south-easter than we are.
From The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn
