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
A number of boys were snowballing gleefully in a field.
From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
Some lads, or young men, were snowballing his windows.
From Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Others were washing one another's faces and some were snowballing.
From The Curlytops Snowed In Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds by Howard R. Garis
