pedal
noun
a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
were pedaling
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past progressiveof pedal.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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About 40 bicyclists were pedaling south on Figueroa Street, just north of Martin Luther King Boulevard, when an altercation took place between the group and the driver of the sedan, California Highway Patrol Sgt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
A decade after The Original Big Wheel, American children were pedaling along in a different kind of ride.
From Fox News ● Nov. 18, 2021
A few women were pedaling away at every other sewing machine, wearing paper facial masks and staggering their lunch breaks to comply with social distancing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2020
Five minutes later, we were pedaling down quiet back streets to Sunset Beach Park.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
He wrapped mine also to keep down the clatter, and soon we were pedaling through the blacked-out streets of Haarlem at a speed that would have scared me even in daylight.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
