was puking
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past progressiveof puke.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
pukeverb (used with or without object)to vomit.
Example Sentences
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My main goal was to write something that entertained me while I was puking with morning sickness!
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
There I was, puking on the summit with the other pilgrims who had climbed too high, too fast.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2018
This was the first invasion of my life where nobody was puking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But if we pointed one end forward and shoved the stick forward by a thrust on the back end of it, our scientific name for that operation was "puking" the stick.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar