gurgle
verb (used without object)
to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current.
was gurgling
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past progressiveof gurgle.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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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
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 John Fox
Here the oily swell was gurgling in the stone embankment.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick
At last she noticed that the water in the cabin was gurgling to and fro, and, in the same instant, she felt the regular swing of the moving ship.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
