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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"I consider it boring. And the dog just fell asleep and was snoring because he knows the topic."
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023
Outfielder David Peralta normally doesn’t sleep on the plane but did this time and said he was snoring so loudly he woke himself up.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
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
Neville was snoring loudly, but Harry couldn’t sleep.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
