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
Two parlor maids were whisking their skirts and dusters out of the opposite door, a footman at their heels.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Marie Van Vorst
Lanterns were whisking to and fro like giant lightning-bugs about the long garrison granary and the quartermaster and commissary storehouse, where wagons were being loaded with tents, ammunition, rations, and forage—enough for sixty days.
From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates
So have I myself found them, especially when their spears were whisking over my boat and they were dancing in warlike frenzy on the beach.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
