ejaculate
verb (used with object)
to utter suddenly and briefly; exclaim.
was ejaculating
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past progressiveof ejaculate.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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"It's a trick of Madero's to rush the mine!" exclaimed Buck, who, with the others, came up as the German was ejaculating the last words.
From The Border Boys Across the Frontier by John Henry Goldfrap
"Carley, you can't be hurt—really!" he was ejaculating, in eager hope.
From The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
To herself Mrs. Minto was ejaculating in a shivering way: "My baby, my baby!"
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
My own arrangements having been made, I was smoking a cigarette in the corridor when a well-known voice over my shoulder was ejaculating my Christian name.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
"Gorblime!" a ragged vender of unauthorized race-cards was ejaculating near the garage.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
