slave
noun
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
was slaving
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past progressiveof slave.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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Director George Miller, creator of Babe as well as the Mad Max franchise, was slaving away last week, trying to get the $90 million-plus film in shape for its Nov. 25 opening.
From Time Magazine Archive
Much earlier that day, before Granny discovered the fly in her caldo verde, Tendai was slaving away in the She Elephant’s shebeen.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
And I half-rose to return to my diminutive study, where I was slaving, just then, at an absorbing article on Comparative Aesthetic Values in the Blind and Deaf.
From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
Nay, I was slaving down Panama way six years ago.
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
For it was slaving along, this constantly picking and digging and carting the dirt, sand, and gravel to the sluice boxes and throwing it in.
From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer
