slay
verb (used with object)
to kill by violence.
were slaying
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past progressiveof slay.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 while Harvard and North Dakota State were slaying favorites here in Spokane in games that bookended this one, Payne is making sure that his legacy – and Michigan State’s advancement – keeps moving forward.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2014
Just ask any number of Australian blokes who turned up for the six-star, WQS comp-the boys were slaying it!
From Time Magazine Archive
It began to look as if tiny David were slaying the Gillette Goliath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile the soothsayers were slaying a victim over the river, and the enemy were letting fly their arrows and slingstones; but as yet they were out of range.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
While they lived there were great things to be done; and when they died, whether it were slaying the Egyptians or charging the British squares, a Paradise which they could understand awaited them.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
