screw
noun
a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
was screwing
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past progressiveof screw.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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“I knew that if I was screwing it up, he’d go: ‘No!’
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2020
On Wednesday evening she was screwing pieces of plywood over the store’s street-front windows.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018
“It was a complex system and I was making mistake after mistake, and my coach, Chick Harris, he yelled at me and kicked me off the field, because I was screwing up,” Horton said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2018
"I thought, ‘Ah, simple,’" he recalls. "What was happening was that anesthetic was screwing up the brain in some way."
From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2017
A girl whose face was screwing up in the ugliest way, tears starting to stream from her eyes.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
