slouch
verb (used without object)
to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
was slouching
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past progressiveof slouch.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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This ridiculous, childlike, kind of sad stand-in for its creator was slouching and seemed to be saying, “I know how you feel. I can’t believe someone’s letting me get away with this, either.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
And I was like, ‘Maybe I was slouching a little bit.’
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2020
And even as it played on PBS in early 1994, the internet was slouching into existence down the peninsula.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2019
Yet as the counterculture made partly in Dylan’s image was slouching off to San Francisco to be born, its idol vanished.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2015
I quietly took my place at the end of the line, next to a guy who was slouching so badly that I thought he might actually fall over.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
