were parroting
- past progressive of parrot.
Example Sentences
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He also suggested the other candidates were parroting his ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
Many of the accounts didn’t follow the feminists they were parroting or even the tastemakers of Black Twitter, like Desus and Mero.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2019
They were not just expressing their own angst; they were parroting a world-despair and a death-fascination that lay at the heart of contemporary French rap.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2017
Soon others were parroting and expanding Buffon’s theory of New World degeneracy.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2012
