Example Sentences

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Her mother had been kneading dough that morning, and she paused in her work to look out the kitchen window at the Wood.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

The pink in Rose’s pretty face turned as white as the flour she had been kneading.

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)

He had been kneading a small mass for the purpose.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

The manitou breathed twice, and life came into the figure, which the Beau-man had been kneading into the shape of a handsome youth.

From Fort Amity by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir