molest
verb (used with object)
to make indecent sexual advances to.
were molesting
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past progressiveof molest.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 Ghibba told him that it was the Long-nose mulgars who were molesting them.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
The children hereabout seem to take to her as little as I do, for I had to drive away some who were molesting her.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Several times a day some member of the family would go out around the fields to see if any cattle were molesting them.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
Don Giovanni, who had known so well her former trials, often inquired, during her last illness, if Satan's ministers were molesting her.
From The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others by Georgiana Fullerton
