growl
verb (used without object)
to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility.
were growling
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past progressiveof growl.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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He consistently sounds as if he were growling, itching for a rumble.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
Of jobless citizens actually put to work by last week, a discouraging number were growling about their low pay, threatening to strike.
From Time Magazine Archive
With their little front paws locked around each other, they were growling, rolling, and chewing on one another.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
I could not understand the words they were growling out, but their intention was plain.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Presently one caught sight of the two figures above them, and with an angry yelp sprang up in the air, and immediately all were growling, snarling, and leaping.
From A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
