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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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 Larson, Laurence Marcellus
Here and there a half-domestic pig was harrying one with thrusting snout.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
The big master-mechanic had a round-house foreman "on the carpet" and was harrying him like the dickens for letting an engine go out with one of her truck safety chains hanging loose.
From The Wreckers by Lynde, Francis
At 3.30 on the following morning the cavalry was harrying the Boers to the north-east.
From Sir John French An Authentic Biography by Chisholm, Cecil
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 Paine, Ralph Delahaye
