extricate
verb (used with object)
to free or release from entanglement; disengage.
were extricating
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past progressiveof extricate.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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In a tweet, the Seattle Fire Department said crews were extricating a person from the truck and recommended that drivers take alternate routes to avoid the area.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
“We were putting the phone down on each other all over New York, gently, we were extricating ourselves.”
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2015
When the cart had stuck in the mud for the tenth time in half an hour, Charlie whispered to Fred, as they were extricating it, 'I have had enough of this.
From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various
Below, Blenheim and his friend were extricating themselves from that blessed table.
From The Firefly of France by Marion Polk Angellotti
