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
Nevertheless, Gypsy and Tom, and even Mr. Hallam, looked narrowly at the old frail log, and down into the gorge where the water was gurgling.
From Gypsy Breynton by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
He was gurgling to himself in a pained sort of way and making no effort to rise.
From Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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 William Allen White
