terrorize
verb (used with object)
to fill or overcome with terror.
were terrorizing
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past progressiveof terrorize.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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“We were terrorizing Josh about who was the real Josh Allen,” linebacker Myles Jack said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
In one video just days before her arrest, Hari said FBI and local law enforcement were terrorizing Clarence and she asked "freedom-loving people everywhere to come and help us."
From Fox News ● Sep. 13, 2021
In one video just days before her arrest, Hari said FBI and local law enforcement were terrorizing Clarence and she asked “freedom-loving people everywhere to come and help us.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
Comey: The notion that this was about taking criminals who were terrorizing the community and removing them from the community, exiling them from the community.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 26, 2019
To meet this unexpected emergency, General Rutherford was ordered to quell the Tories in the Cape Fear section, who were terrorizing the people in that region.
From In Ancient Albemarle by Mabel Pugh
