soliloquize
verb (used without object)
to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
was soliloquizing
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past progressiveof soliloquize.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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He was soliloquizing to himself in the intervals of putting motions and attending to the routine of his office.
From Fifty Years of Public Service by Shelby M. Cullom
Seemingly, he was soliloquizing, and none understood except the one person for whose benefit the sarcasm was intended.
From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy
Now, it came to pass that as he was soliloquizing as above one morning, a girl appeared before him.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
"Jenkins was away," observed the detective in a tone of abstraction, which told he was soliloquizing, rather than addressing his companion.
From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood
He went about muttering and growling; wherever you met him he was soliloquizing and saying, "despicable pretender—without grouping—without two ideas upon handling—without"—and there you lost him.
From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey
