toddle
verb (used without object)
to move with short, unsteady steps, as a young child.
were toddling
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past progressiveof toddle.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 Luther and Johnny were toddling around, Myanmar soldiers had begun clearing the forest to make way for a natural gas pipeline that would bring riches to the country’s military dictatorship.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2020
Humanity was gone from them; they were toddling idols of stone and varnish, worshipping themselves and greedy for though oblivious of worship from their fellow graven images.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
Yet here they were in the market, while ours were toddling about at home less than half grown.
From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by James Rankin
He was always their playmate and boon companion, whether they were toddling infants taking their first faltering steps, or growing schoolboys, or youths standing at the threshold of life.
From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
Soon the little gleaners were toddling off out of the yard—moving masses of green with all that their aprons and their little hands could carry.
From Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England by Harriet Beecher Stowe
