whisk
verb (used with object)
to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke.
were whisking
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past progressiveof whisk.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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Trump and Kim’s name cards were still on the tables minutes later, as their motorcades were whisking them back to their hotels.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
Ferry boats, operated by more than twenty different competing lines, were whisking an increasing tide of passengers out of Manhattan and taking them to the nearby shores of New Jersey, Staten Island or Brooklyn.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
They turned another corner and were whisking by a little house, inside of which was some one sewing for dear life on a jacket.
From Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus by Victor C. Anderson
The cows, grazing below in the valleys, were whisking their tails, and from the farm-yards came the crow of the chanticleer.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
Returning to the quay, they stopped to look at the little steamers which were whisking about in every direction.
From Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic
