barbecue
noun
pieces of meat, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted or smoked over fire, especially when basted in a barbecue sauce.
were barbecuing
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past progressiveof barbecue.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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“They were barbecuing next door,” Semans told me.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2019
Some residents were barbecuing while children played in bounce houses and dozens danced to hip-hop and listened to go-go bands.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2016
Randolph said he and his brother were barbecuing outside the apartment complex when police arrived.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2015
But at the edge of the park, where people were barbecuing, stood the Guy with the Drone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2015
Next door to us they were barbecuing and he landed on the barbecue, stole a sausage and brought it straight back to me, an act that caused some tension between the neighbours and us.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2015
