waddle
verb (used without object)
to walk with short steps, swaying or rocking from side to side, as a duck.
were waddling
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past progressiveof waddle.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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Toddlers and kindergartners held signs as big as they were, waddling alongside their parents, at Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan on a Saturday afternoon.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2021
They were waddling, pecking and paddling their way around Broad Channel, Queens, before heading back to the eastern shores of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2016
But when the story gets under way, it is as if a tired beetle were waddling across a canvas by Vermeer.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were waddling rapidly along upon short legs, and now and then one would go upon all fours like Bolgani, the gorilla.
From Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
It was approached by a drive that crossed a green, where some ducks were waddling about, and entered the front garden, which was surrounded by a low wall.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
