were dogging
- past progressive of dog.
Example Sentences
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The third, which opens in Rome this week, may act as if the devil were dogging the bishops' footsteps; it promises to be the most productive in accomplishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
In their efforts to play at this great game of imperialism, and to win their share of profitable business, Germany, France, Japan, Belgium and the United States were dogging the British heels.
From The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation by Nearing, Scott
Noticing that one or two men were dogging her footsteps, she asked a policeman how she could get into "Dawes'."
From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Newte, Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can)
"By the way, I wonder what he meant by saying we were dogging him?"
From The Rover Boys on the Ocean Or, a chase for a fortune by Stratemeyer, Edward
While Ugo sat calmly in his apartment, his patient agents were dogging the man he feared, dogging him with the persistence and glee of blood-hounds.
From Castle Craneycrow by McCutcheon, George Barr
