trundle
verb (used with object)
to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll.
was trundling
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past progressiveof trundle.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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Soon after, they went down to 13 when Florian Rosu came in at the side of a maul that was trundling towards his own line.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2023
As he spoke, I had to dodge a forklift that was trundling toward me.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2017
Before Life of Pi, Martel – who had published a collection of short stories and a novel to critical acclaim and uninspiring sales – was trundling along, happy enough but earning next to nothing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2010
U.S. politics was trundling along on its usual unserious and trivial trajectory when news of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine shook the world.
From Washington Post
It was as if a spirit had somehow go hold of an earthly wheelbarrow and was trundling it quite unconsciously, with no sense of responsibility.
From An Old Town By the Sea by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
