din
noun
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
were dinning
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past progressiveof din.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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Strange that they were dinning in her memory, even now.
From The Imaginary Marriage by Henry St. John Cooper
From day to day she had thought that she must give it up, even when they were dinning into her ears the tidings that Walter Marrable was to marry that girl at Dunripple.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
