was carousing
- past progressive of carouse.
Example Sentences
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Arkansas State Legislator, was carousing most annoyingly in an adjacent room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why he was carousing thus in the small hours was not evident.
From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas
With open arms the clubs welcomed the poet to their festivities; each man proud to think that he was carousing with Robbie Burns.
From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell
Yes, I shall be told, but he was carousing that night, squandering money; he was shown to have had fifteen hundred roubles—where did he get the money?
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
