wheel
noun
a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
was wheeling
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past progressiveof wheel.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 wheeling produce up the ramp to the kitchen, his movements as familiar to me as my own breath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
By the 1960s, the Egyptian was a wealthy man who was wheeling and dealing with everyone from Arab sheiks to Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's notorious dictator.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
A man, wearing athletic shorts and sandals with socks, was wheeling her bike near City Hall Park.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
A long-haired blond man sang praise songs into a microphone plugged into a stack of amplifiers he was wheeling on a hand-truck.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2022
A woman not five feet tall, with a grotesque, protruding stomach, was wheeling an old black baby carriage down the street.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
