jumble
verb (used with object)
to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order.
were jumbling
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past progressiveof jumble.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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New Orleans echoed with the sounds that were jumbling together gloriously as jazz.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her dream of the past and the present reality were jumbling themselves together.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
The Old and the New, the East and the West, the reverential Past and iconoclastic Present were jumbling themselves together in bewildering confusion.
From The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills by Ralph Connor
“You’re not just being pedantic,” Lyman said gently, watching the screen on which four animated jaggy boxes were jumbling and dancing as they reported on the throughput between the routers and the laptop.
From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
