corral
noun
an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
was corralling
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past progressiveof corral.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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Across the aisle, a vendor named Whitney, a former elementary school librarian, was corralling passersby for her next pitch session for MackinMaker.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2023
It was as if something was corralling those tiny worlds, like a sheepdog manoeuvring its flock.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2020
And then Brantley was swinging through Hudson’s down-and-in slider, and Gomes was corralling it, and then he was chucking his mask.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020
Some kids were harder to guess, but we were a herd of dress-code violators, and the man on the stage was corralling us.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
