was adoring
- past progressive of adore.
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
So that that which was specially respected in the decree, was adoring in the participation.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
He was adoring, indulgent, whimsical, and singularly tactful in spite of his absent-minded lapses.
From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.
