stoop
verb (used without object)
to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position.
were stooping
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past progressiveof stoop.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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These children, it was plain, had been running and playing across the tombs; but now they were stooping together at some earnest sport.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
The gentlemen were stooping down, as if looking for something on the floor.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 01 by Maria Edgeworth
While we were stooping down to do so, and Caesar was busy lapping the refreshing liquid, our slow-moving guide reached the water.
From In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting by John Steeple Davis
Two gardeners with large baskets were stooping over the strawberry beds, hard at work, picking the last of the strawberries.
From What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps by Randolph Caldecott
Side by side they were stooping together over the silent figure.
From A Duel by Richard Marsh
