waltz
noun
a ballroom dance, in moderately fast triple meter, in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles, taking one step to each beat.
were waltzing
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past progressiveof waltz.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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“Changing Partners,” which went to No. 2 in 1953, dramatized another dance crisis: “We were waltzing together” when you-know-what happens.
From Time ● Jan. 4, 2013
Before we knew it, five guys in backward baseball caps were waltzing the family couch down the front steps and into the truck.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another time they saw marmots pair off, stand "erect on their hind legs, grasping each other with their front paws, and dance slowly about exactly as though they were waltzing."
From Time Magazine Archive
There were bubbles inside the paperweight which made the man and woman look as though they were waltzing underwater.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
They were waltzing to the strains of ‘Build Me a Bower of Moonbeams’.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
