frisk
verb (used without object)
to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic.
were frisking
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past progressiveof frisk.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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And hundreds of Cloud-Men’s children were frisking about all over the place and shrieking with laughter and sliding down the billows of the cloud on toboggans.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
A couple of black-robbed ghouls had pulled aside one spirit and were frisking him at the security desk.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
The farmer’s sheep were in their pasture, and the little lambs were frisking and playing with each other.
From Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin by Ben Field
Little lambs were frisking In the fields so green, While the fleecy mothers All at rest were seen.
From Pinafore Palace by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
On the second of February the thaw persisted; and on the 3d swarms of little insects were frisking and sporting in a court-yard at South Lambeth, as if they had felt no frost.
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
