canter
noun
an easy gallop.
were cantering
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past progressiveof canter.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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With 18 minutes and 34 seconds on the clock here, Leicester had three points safely secured and they were cantering to victory.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2019
Paul, replying only by a bow to the young woman's compliment, joined the others who were cantering near her.
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Ren? de Pont-Jest
The open veldt now lay outstretched before them, and Suffield and the two Dutchmen were cantering on some distance ahead.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
Half a dozen soldiers, with matchlocks to which were attached red flags, were cantering gayly up the hillside only a few yards in front of us.
From An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
As they were cantering slowly toward a deep ravine which they had crossed earlier in the day, their ponies suddenly began to raise their ears and whinny.
From The War Trail by Elmer Russell Gregor
