cherish
verb (used with object)
to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.
was cherishing
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past progressiveof cherish.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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She said she had time to read books, talk to her family and she was cherishing a different life to a city career.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
During the time that De Willows was cherishing an increasing affection for Madeline, the youthful Edeliza, now in the sixteenth year, was in a situation more distressing.
From Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 by Elizabeth Bonhote
Morgan did not suspect that this access of spirits was occasioned by the secret she was cherishing until she confronted him with it in the evening.
From The Law-Breakers and Other Stories by Robert Grant
But in the end this could not satisfy me; I knew that I was cherishing 53 a sham, a pretty make-believe after the manner of children.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More
Not one of the West Barbican's officers realized what viper the good ship was cherishing in her bosom; for in Berlin William Porter would have answered readily and truthfully to the name of Ludwig Schoeffer.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
