was carousing
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past progressiveof carouse.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
carouseverb (used without object)to engage in a drunken revel.
Example Sentences
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Her slogan was Let's do something! and Scott was only too glad to comply, whether it was carousing all night or arriving at Sam Goldwyn's party on all fours, barking.
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Arkansas State Legislator, was carousing most annoyingly in an adjacent room.
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He gave it an ingenious twist in the air, and informed me that he was carousing.
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
While Pollux was deliberating, and Zarah praying, Lysimachus was carousing amidst boon companions in the city.
From Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History by A. L. O. E.
From thence the alarm spread along the lower deck, to the midshipmen's berth, where another party was carousing.
From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall