was diffusing
- past progressive of diffuse.
Example Sentences
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“You made deliberate physical contact with one of our game officials as he was diffusing an active confrontation between players,” Jon Runyan, NFL vice president of Football Operations, said in a letter to Lynch.
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2017
Perry starts doing that riff, he stops, and there was a moment when the audience was laughing and the whole thing was diffusing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
Not a single cloud could be seen in the sky and the sun was diffusing like a softening ache.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2015
An aromatic smell of coffee was diffusing itself through the atmosphere; and this was surrounded and intermingled with the stronger and ranker, though less pungent, odors of the stew aforesaid.
From A Castle in Spain A Novel by De Mille, James
There beside the hearth, from which a frugal fire was diffusing its light through the clean twilight room, sat the fisherman's aged wife in a great chair.
From Undine by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de
