barbecue
noun
pieces of meat, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted or smoked over fire, especially when basted in a barbecue sauce.
was barbecuing
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past progressiveof barbecue.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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Everybody was barbecuing outside, listening to music, having the best time.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
“Originally, my dad was barbecuing, and he was training me for like four years,” Nelson said of his father, who was from Louisiana and who died last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2017
Kay, reached by telephone at home yesterday, said she was barbecuing the food in her refrigerator before it went bad and said her neighbors were doing the same.
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 9, 2011
Over the phone, I spoke to Earnhardt in February after the Daytona 500, and he talked to me about a coming race in Atlanta and then told me he was barbecuing tacos with his crew.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2010
He went over to where Aunt Silvy was barbecuing the deer, the most melancholy-looking boy, perhaps, that ever was at a barbecue with a cotton-bloom in his button-hole.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Mary Mapes Dodge
