adore
verb (used with object)
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
was adoring
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past progressiveof adore.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The crowd was adoring but constrained, said Michael Streissguth, author of “Johnny Cash: The Biography.”
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2018
Every crowd was adoring; every stop promoted a worthy cause.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later on, Úrsula had put candles on it and had prostrated herself before it, not suspecting that instead of a saint she was adoring almost four hundred pounds of gold.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was adoring, indulgent, whimsical, and singularly tactful in spite of his absent-minded lapses.
From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter
By the time the Squire entered he was adoring the stately stone fireplace.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
