carouse
verb (used without object)
to engage in a drunken revel.
were carousing
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past progressiveof carouse.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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It was not long before the two of them were carousing together in Saigon.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2018
The athletes were carousing on the running track.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several tents were erected in the garden; and although the night was not cold great fires had been lighted, around which the Danes were carousing.
From The Dragon and the Raven by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
And when my hero and heroine and another friend supped with me at the inn after the battle, I felt that they were really as radiant as if we were carousing among the slain.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
After a while the sounds from the public room below, where men were carousing, disturbed his slumber.
From Audrey by Mary Johnston
