seethe
verb (used without object)
to surge or foam as if boiling.
had been seething
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past perfect progressiveof seethe.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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In one short hour she had conjured away the rebellion that had been seething in the girl’s mind for weeks.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
When she sat him down at his little garden gate, he put the question that had been seething in his mind all the way down the shady stretch they had traversed.
From The Hollow of Her Hand by George Barr McCutcheon
He realized that since the night of Raoul's arrival he had been seething with insensate jealousy.
From The Sheik by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
This thing had been seething in her mind, and she was going to have it out at the risk of breaking friendship.
From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda Minnie Douglas
It was more than I knew, though President McKinley, through Senator Carter, had suggested, when the Friars' difficulty had been seething in the Philippines, a solution which had seemed to me out of the question.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Maurice Francis Egan
