bum
noun
was bumming
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past progressiveof bum.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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It’s got pristine nature and wilderness, and looking at six-packs and Big Gulps and burrito wrappers everywhere was bumming him out.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2021
Nobody, in fact, has ever come to the Washington State Committee on Geographic Names requesting a place-name change simply because the current one was bumming them out, says Caleb Maki, the group’s executive secretary.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2020
A month earlier, a onetime hobo who had just built a 43-tone organ in Chicago and was bumming around the East Coast won a Guggenheim grant, giving institutional credence to his trippy musical explorations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2015
“It was bumming us out that everything had to be so legal these days,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2014
Funny—never used to feel lonely when I was bumming around on freights and so on, not paying any special attention to anybody.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
