desire
verb (used with object)
was desiring
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past progressiveof desire.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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There was a general disinclination indeed to push matters to either extreme, a general shrinking from the persecution which the Catholic called for as from the destruction which the Protestant was desiring.
From History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green
Right now Miss Amanda was desiring Emily Louise MacLauren to give attention.
From Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart by Charles Louis Hinton
He, a prince of the Church, was desiring to be a navvy for a space during which he could be unconditionally active.
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
Massena had under him 60,000 French veterans, and was desiring nothing more than that Wellington should attack him.
From The Young Buglers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Mrs. Montgomery was desiring the shopman to show her various kinds and sizes, that she might choose from among them.
From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
