snowball
noun
were snowballing
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past progressiveof snowball.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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Both Wadhams and Serreze anticipate the loss will have disastrous and, as it were, snowballing consequences.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
When I arrived at the front gate one morning, some of my little angels were snowballing some other little angels just in back of school.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just let us exchange a couple of broadsides and you’d think no more about the matter than if you were snowballing each other.
From The Two Shipmates by William Henry Giles Kingston
There, in the level region, boys were snowballing and shouting.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Sam Bending felt as if the thing were snowballing on him.
From Damned If You Don't by H. R. van Dongen
