tool
noun
an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
were tooling
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past progressiveof tool.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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She noticed that many of older people were tooling around the neighborhood in Laura Ashley-style dresses, sneakers and fanny packs.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2018
Around midnight, we were tooling through San Francisco in a cab toward our hotel.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2016
One night around that time, four of us were tooling down the Modarres Highway when a police car signaled for us to pull over.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2016
Katzenberg will run the studio; late last week the two men were tooling around Los Angeles in Katzenberg's Mustang, looking for a studio lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Put them into glass jars; and having kept the syrup warm over the fire while the pears were tooling, pour it over them.
From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Eliza Leslie
