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
Ḥuseyn himself was not commissioned to offer Ḳurratu'l 'Ayn as a member of the new society, but the Bāb 'knew what was in man,' and divined what the gifted woman was desiring.
From The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by Thomas Kelly Cheyne
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
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
John was, therefore, very much surprised one day to hear that this good gentleman, of whom he had in the past been so fearful, was desiring to see him.
From How John Became a Man Life Story of a Motherless Boy by Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum
