wreathe
verb (used with object)
to encircle or adorn with or as with a wreath.
is wreathing
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present progressiveof wreathe (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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She will read to Tom for hours on hours, And sit with him on the grass all day; You see she is wreathing pretty flowers, About his neck, in her pleasant play.
From Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Unknown
There is no movement but where faint smoke is wreathing slowly across the deserted streets.
From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)
See!" cried Katherine, with girlish delight, "see, my cousin! see, Barnstable! how beautifully that vapor is wreathing itself in clouds above the smoky line of fog!
From The Pilot by Cooper, James Fenimore
She will read to Tom for hours on hours, And sit with him on the grass all day; You see she is wreathing pretty flowers About his neck, in her pleasant play.
From Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Unknown
