vocalize
verb (used with object)
to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
were vocalizing
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past progressiveof vocalize.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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All the young dudes learned this from Green, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Michael Jackson — a lineage of legends who routinely sounded as if they were vocalizing in a space beyond their physical being.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2016
Scarcely had the sound waves faded away when in the mysterious distance came another and another answer, until it seemed as if a troop of lost souls were vocalizing their misery.
From The Black Wolf Pack by Beard, Daniel Carter
