carouse
verb (used without object)
to engage in a drunken revel.
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.
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
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.
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 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He gave it an ingenious twist in the air, and informed me that he was carousing.
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
