zap
verb (used with object)
to bombard with electrical current, radiation, laser beams, etc..
was zapping
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past progressiveof zap.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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“I was zapping around TV on a Sunday and somehow got stuck on the channel showing the game,” Spiess said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Sharp, articulate, educated, nobody’s fool—and there she was, zapping herself with a machine invented by someone who died of what it supposedly prevented.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2017
There he was zapping Julie Andrews on a mountaintop in “The Sound of Music.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2011
