slam
verb (used with or without object)
to shut with force and noise.
was slamming
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past progressiveof slam.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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Few realized as incoming Kraken center Yanni Gourde was slamming and crashing his way to another Stanley Cup championship this summer that the pain in his left shoulder had grown too big to ignore.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
The comments Baldwin was slamming have since been deleted, but the Daily Mail captured several screenshots.
From Fox News ● Apr. 26, 2019
By the end of the game, RJ Barrett was slamming home an alley-oop pass off the glass.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2018
My cousin, having consumed quite a bit of wine, misinterpreted something I said about the Adam Rippon–Mike Pence story and thought I was slamming Christians in general.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2018
She complained that Bren was slamming them on the table too hard.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
