twitter
verb (used without object)
to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
was twittering
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past progressiveof twitter.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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Ron’s tiny owl was twittering madly on the top of the icicleladen banisters, a scroll of parchment tied to his leg.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
The Scot, who was something of a naturalist, was engrossed at the moment in the contemplation of a little bird which was twittering on a twig in quite an opposite direction.
From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Away up in the boughs of a camphor tree a little tailor-bird was twittering.
From The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
The dryness of pre-dawn gave partial light and somewhere a bird was twittering.
From Plague Ship by Andre Norton
For Germania was twittering as if she did find her new home to her liking.
From Mary Rose of Mifflin by Frances R. Sterrett
