piss
noun
was pissing
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past progressiveof piss.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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“Eleven years ago, I was pissing the bed,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Madelyn Cline, who plays conservative YouTube personality Whiskey, said she channeled “everything that was pissing me off or has ever pissed me off” while destroying the glass sculptures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
"Jamaica is beautiful and idyllic, but one day it was pissing it down with rain, and I was like, 'Ah, it still rains in heaven,'" she explains.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2020
“I wanted to talk about stopping all the wars, stopping all the negativity we have. But what I was doing was pissing people off and putting people against each other.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2019
By the time we got to Black Swan Green it was pissing it down.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
