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 dryness of pre-dawn gave partial light and somewhere a bird was twittering.
From Plague Ship by Andre Norton
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
The small grocery closet had been filled with supplies, the fire had been lighted in the diminutive kitchen stove, and the tea-kettle was twittering on top, like a bird on a bough.
From The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
He was sitting by an open window; and as I paused, a bird lit upon a branch just outside and was twittering and singing most joyously.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne
