snare
noun
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
were snaring
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past progressiveof snare.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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The commercial fishermen, he argued, were snaring the great silver horde before the fish had a chance to get into Puget Sound or the inland lakes and streams.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here Indian trappers were snaring before Columbus opened the doors of the New World to the hordes of the Old; and here Indian trappers will hunt as long as the race lasts.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
Apart, under the grape arbor, Teresa Morse and her brother were snaring lizards—playing like two well-behaved babies miraculously grown tall.
From The Readjustment by Will Irwin
