wallop
verb (used with object)
to beat soundly; thrash.
were walloping
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past progressiveof wallop.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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“There was the path to a new identity,” McLellan said, “but I think we were walloping and wallowing around a little bit, trying to maybe be something we weren’t yet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
High winds were the most prevalent hazard, prompting advisories and warnings for over 100 million Americans; as of Friday morning, gusts over 50 mph were walloping parts of the northern Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
Sadau on one side of the ship, Jeffords and Haldocott at the other, had run in close and were walloping manfully at the nozzles of the rocket tubes.
From The Devil's Asteroid by Manly Wade Wellman
The massive metal waves of the shaft were walloping and plunging in their pits with an astonishing bird-like alacrity; about fifteen tons of polished steel were moving with swift and somewhat awful desperation.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
