ferment
noun
any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
was fermenting
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past progressiveof ferment.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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So the fact that we can eat this fruit that was fermenting was a protective factor that enhanced evolution.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2023
It was fermenting in the back of my mind, but for the most part, I assumed, as I was told, that it would appear on British public television.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2018
A week later, while my second batch of dosa batter was fermenting, I went back to Pondicheri for a frying tutorial.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2017
Above the position which they had occupied, an oligarchy of wealth had reared itself: beneath that position a degraded mass of poverty and misery was fermenting.
From The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
That social discontent was fermenting among the lower classes which finally issued in the communistic uprising of the peasantry under Wat Tyler and Jack Straw.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
