trundle
verb (used with object)
to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll.
is trundling
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present progressiveof trundle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But the shadows of that woodland pull me toward a memory, and suddenly I’m looking through a smudged bus window, my reflection mixing with the dark hole of an alley the bus is trundling past.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2022
So it is that a plan no one can bring themselves to support wholeheartedly is trundling forward, despite many anxieties about the long-term consequences.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
The year is 2022, it’s two years after “the virus,” and Phil is trundling around the country in an RV futilely looking for other survivors.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2015
On a late afternoon in mid April, the sky is bright, the sun is high, and the overnight ferry to Aberdeen is trundling along the horizon.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2011
Dr. Davison's protege wrote: "Dear Ruth: "Mrs. Kimmons, next door, is trundling her twin babies—awfully homely little mites—up and down her long piazza in my wheel-chair.
From Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery by Alice B. Emerson
