dabble
verb (used without object)
to play and splash in or as if in water, especially with the hands.
were dabbling
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past progressiveof dabble.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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Equity options, which some fellow stay-at-home investors were dabbling in, would juice up her returns, she decided.
From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2021
LH-L: That was was something we were dabbling in as part of a research project.
From The Verge ● Oct. 20, 2016
Making anarchist performance art was a hard way to earn a living even back then, when millions of young Americans were dabbling in revolutionary ideas.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2012
Whether they intended to follow thorough with their threat or were dabbling in psy-ops in order to intimidate delegates, as the Afghan government claims, is immaterial.
From Time ● Nov. 17, 2011
She struck me as a gory old party who couldn't live comfortably unless she were dabbling in blue blood.
From Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon
