leaven
noun
a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
is leavening
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present progressiveof leaven (3rd person singular).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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It is leavening and deepening to be with memories of the greats, says Bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
To keep itchy fingers off those dials, the network is leavening its offerings with lighter fare.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our young crusader, Professor Knapp, holds night schools and day schools and prayer meetings, with an active devotion, a practical and American fervor, that is leavening a great lump of apathy and death.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
The American idea is leavening Russia surely enough.
From Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose
The one official who stood before his country and the world as the anti-opium leader, who personified, in fact, the reform spirit which is leavening the Chinese mass, was Yuan Shi K’ai, the Northern viceroy.
From Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse by Samuel Merwin
