was gurgling
- past progressive of gurgle.
Example Sentences
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Holding her three children as best she could, Mrs. Tacugue was gurgling water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2013
Soon muddy Shannon water was gurgling slowly into Ireland's biggest ditch, a huge canal-reservoir six miles long, deep enough to engulf a four-story home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Holy was gurgling ecstatically, his delight finding vent in a yell of irrepressible joy as Punk fumbled twistingly with his bare upper lip in emulation of Douglass's impatient twirls of his mustache.
From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank
The boy, who had been working with the wheezy pump, was holding the handle up, and water was gurgling down the well.
From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen
By that time she was gurgling with delight over a bunch of spring beauties that came up, root, stalk and all, when she reached for them.
From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Fox, John
