warble
verb (used without object)
to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments.
were warbling
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past progressiveof warble.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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As a youth, he was enchanted by those sirens of British socialism, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who were warbling their Fabian lays over the bleaching bones of Karl Marx.
From Time Magazine Archive
The birds too were warbling forth a happy song; not, however, with the full swelling chorus of spring, but yet sufficiently to give cheerfulness to the otherwise silent woods.
From The Log House by the Lake A Tale of Canada by William Henry Giles Kingston
It was as if an angel had come to earth, and were warbling the airs of paradise.
From The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
He heard the rich mellow notes of the blackbirds and thrushes, thousands and thousands of which were warbling incessantly in the cool shadow of the yew and holly hedges.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
Not a face passed by, but smiled; mocking-birds perched on the boughs; and singing, made us vow the woods were warbling forth thanksgiving, with a thousand throats!
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
