dun
verb (used with object)
to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
was dunning
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past progressiveof dun.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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Just two months before the historic battle, Ma Morse was dunning Custer for an overdue bill that amounted to more than a hundred dollars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still later they set out northward through the lamp-lit night for the older part of town, where resided the aunt on whose behalf there was dunning to be done that night.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
At this moment, the affair of the Chronique was being liquidated; and then Madame Bechet, his late publisher, was dunning him for some arrears of copy that he owed her.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
