jumble
verb (used with object)
to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order.
was jumbling
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past progressiveof jumble.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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He was jumbling three languages together into an indistinguishable tumult of sound and he was emptying the cook-tent of everything which his stout, German muscles could fling from it.
From The Happy Family by B. M. Bower
The sea was jumbling up and down irregularly, as though great animals had just stopped fighting there.
From Hills and the Sea by Hilaire Belloc
