lisp
was lisping
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past progressiveof lisp.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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So, also, was lisping, little, flaxen-haired Baby Blake, whom I had believed much more likely to capture Horner than the Seraph, as she was always chaffing him and making light of his attentions.
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
But the baby was lisping something in German.
From Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage by Raymond Moreau Crosby
To complete the air of sadness and desolation, the faded leaf of a dried-up geranium was lisping against the window-pane.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
Men's hearts were glad with a wholesome gladness; and every child in the land was lisping the names of Wallace and of Bruce and learning the story of their deeds.
From A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland by Mary Platt Parmele
There was a light of something extraordinary in them, even while her tongue was lisping the emptiest of inanities.
From Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
