was manhandling
- past progressive of manhandle.
Example Sentences
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At one event, Maher thought he spotted a fellow documentarian, whom he grabbed from behind and shook lustily before realizing he was manhandling Clint Eastwood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2020
Down on the court, Juan del Potro was manhandling a qualifier, Donald Young, a onetime American phenom, now approaching thirty and ranked outside the Top 200.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 28, 2018
On the screen a bloke in a blue singlet was manhandling an electric guitar.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2016
His crazed rage was shifted to this presumptuous person who had interfered and was manhandling him; at that moment the liveliest emotion in Britt was the mordant jealousy that he had been trying to stifle.
From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman
Lyga was the only noble who seemed in nowise disconcerted by so extraordinary a happening, and he stood smiling benevolently on Dick while the latter was manhandling the enraged yet terrified Sachar.
From In Search of El Dorado by Collingwood, Harry
