snore
verb (used without object)
to breathe during sleep with hoarse or harsh sounds caused by the vibrating of the soft palate.
was snoring
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past progressiveof snore.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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In my first glimpse of Fred Ward, he was snoring, sleeping it off in a dusty sleeping bag in the back of a truck in the 1990 film "Tremors."
From Salon ● May 13, 2022
She turned it on when my dad was snoring.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022
He said he was told he was snoring and couldn’t move briefly when he woke up.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
In the first trial, he denied that the loud snoring heard in some films was snoring at all, insisting it was just "breathing sounds".
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2020
Late at night, when the fire was only a few glowing coals and Gran was snoring, I slipped out of bed and sat at the spinning wheel.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
