was feathering

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of feather.
  feather

  noun

  one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.

Example Sentences

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was feathering

But in a way he was feathering his nest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2016

I was feathering the throttle a little bit.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2012

He didn’t have a lot of room to land and so he was feathering his engine to keep his speed down.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

Smith was feathering a nest for himself--feathering it with steel and stone and a possible coil of hempen rope.

From The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin

But all this while my cunning attorney was the bird that was feathering his nest charmingly.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

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