shampoo
verb (used with object)
to wash (the head or hair), especially with a cleaning preparation that does not leave a soap film.
was shampooing
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past progressiveof shampoo.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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When he was shampooing, Jerry could have given Cinquevalli, the great juggler, long odds and beaten him.
From The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by A. Monro Smith
There was no chance of anything going wrong, but to make sure, each sais was shampooing the legs of his pony to the last minute.
From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling
Canby was shampooing himself feverishly and had little interest in girls.
From Harlequin and Columbine by Booth Tarkington
My cigar went out whilst he was shampooing me, and my whiskers was wet up with the dye.
From Whispering Smith by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
In his dressing-room he asked the man who was shampooing him, 'Who was that, Raymond, who bowed to me just now?'
From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall
