toggle
noun
a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated.
were toggling
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past progressiveof toggle.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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For most of our conversation, Pitt was both penitent and private, as though he were toggling between the person giving confession and the priest receiving it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2019
But she was surely having more fun than we were, toggling, dazed, among our many screens.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2014
