harry
verb (used with object)
to harass, agitate, or trouble by or as if by repeated attacks; beleaguer.
was harrying
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past progressiveof harry.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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While Benito Bonito was harrying the Spanish shipping of the Pacific and burying his treasure on Cocos Island, there was on the Atlantic a bloodthirsty pirate by the name of Benito de Soto.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
And it would all end in a breathless chase after Max, through field after field where the little wretch was harrying either sheep or cows, with the dear poet, hoarse with shouting, at his heels.
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Mrs. Humphry Ward
And the hearts of the selling people turned from thoughts of who owed them money and who was harrying them for money.
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
There was now nothing to do but to continue the journey eastward and to form a junction with King Anund's fleet which was harrying the Scanian coast.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
The thought that he was harrying one of the Thorntons overbore any consideration he felt for his daughter, even if he stopped to think that her affection was anything except the silliness of childhood.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
