traffic
noun
the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc..
was trafficking
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past progressiveof traffic.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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American Airlines has apologized to musician David Ryan Harris for stopping and questioning him at LAX last month because they suspected he was trafficking children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
He has said that during the day he was a scheduler but at night, he was "trafficking in the black arts."
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2022
A junior epistemologist, I was trafficking in Bishop Berkeley before I could drive.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022
Gonzalez claims Amazon promoted the sale of Marabu charcoal produced on that property, meaning it was trafficking in stolen property.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2019
Moreover, if the certainty that Mr. Skale was trafficking in dangerous and unlawful knowledge was formidable enough to terrify him, for Miriam, at least, it held nothing alarming.
From The Human Chord by Algernon Blackwood
