eddy
noun
a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
was eddying
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past progressiveof eddy.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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Neewa reached a log around which the water was eddying, and there he flattened himself down and hung on as he had never hung to anything else in his life.
From Nomads of the North A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood
A scent of a fragrance unknown to me was eddying in the wind.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
But all the while Steele Weir’s mind was eddying with wonderment.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
All without and within the man was eddying, swirling blackness.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
The last of the yellow winds was eddying slowly past.
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Marcus Horton
