streak
noun
a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like.
were streaking
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past progressiveof streak.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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“When people were streaking across the field and the cops were chasing them, they were laughing like, ‘You can’t catch me,’” recalled the 67-year-old resident of Westlake, Ohio.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
I put my head down and pulled toward the shore, and, when I looked up, several hundred were streaking across the sky.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
At Alpengeist, I hung back with two kids whose parents were streaking overhead at nearly 70 miles per hour.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021
Slim little King Prajadhipok and ample, moon-faced Queen Rambai of Siam were streaking across the Pacific ocean last week, bound for Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's estate on Long Island Sound.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blue lights were streaking across the evening sky toward Olympus like tiny comets.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
