hallo
interjection
(used to call or answer someone, or to incite dogs in hunting.)
was halloing
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past progressiveof hallo.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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David Shoun later recalled that in all his years as a doctor he’d never seen a man in such agony: “He was halloing and was in awful misery.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Why, we met never a tattered vagabond on the road but he was halloing of ditties, and a kinder, more hospitable set of people never lived.
From A Set of Rogues by Frank Barrett
