groove
noun
a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board tongue-and-groove joint, a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
were grooving
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past progressiveof groove.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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Fortunately, I was able to make it seem as if I were grooving to “If I Could Turn Back Time,” the song that precipitates our traveling back to the origins of Cher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
Outside a polling place on Edgecome Avenue, two Rangel volunteers in blue T-shirts were grooving to strains of bachata coming from an open window.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2014
Twenty-five years old, and already lines were grooving both sides of his nostrils.
From The Black Tide by Arthur G. Stangland
