green
adjective
of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum.
are greening
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present progressiveof green.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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You see tiny sprouts inching out of fallen trunks, head-high green shoots overshadowing charred remnants and towering old trees whose branches are greening again, despite jet-black charred bark below.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
And that’s come as a blessing after last year’s dry spell for Southern California’s parks and yards, which are greening up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2019
The young alders and the hawthorn hedges are greening, but it will be a fortnight before we can realise the beauty of that snow-white bloom, with its bitter-sweet fragrance.
From Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
And this ruggedness is held far into the spring, for the black walnut makes no slightest apparent effort at growth until all the other trees are greening the countryside.
From Getting Acquainted with the Trees by J. Horace (John Horace) McFarland
O'er the drift of the river a whiff Comes out from the blossoming shore; And the meadows are greening, as if They never were green before.
From Lyrics of Earth by Archibald Lampman
