entwine
verb (used with or without object)
to twine with, about, around, or together.
was entwining
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past progressiveof entwine.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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Jack Morson, from the top of the step-ladder, was suspending a holly wreath above the door, while Champe was entwining the mahogany balustrade in running cedar.
From The Battle Ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
When Time was entwining the garland of years, Which to crown my beloved was given, Though some of the leaves might be sullied with tears, Yet the flowers were all gathered in heaven.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
I was sorely troubled by the thought that we were not allowed to enter, even for one moment, that solitary house, round the door of which the ivy was entwining anew.
From Debts of Honor by Arthur B. (Arthur Battishill) Yolland
Round the neck of the youth a light chain was entwining, The dagger had cleft it, she joined it again.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 by Various
She had learned to enjoy his presence and to miss him when absent, and when she began to question her heart she found that unconsciously it was entwining around him.
From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
