was flowering
- past progressive of flower.
Example Sentences
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On a sweltering August day, the co-op’s half was flowering and well-tended, while the other side was overgrown, with broad, green leaves spilling onto the sidewalk.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2019
What can you say about a man who took his wife to Moscow for their honeymoon in the days when the Soviet Union was flowering in all its privation and wretched misery.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 21, 2016
When Miles Davis' innovative drummer, Williams, died tragically after routine surgery in 1997, he was flowering as a composer and arranger.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2011
While their culture was flowering, Europe and the Americas were still in the Stone Age.
From Time Magazine Archive
That adamantine mixture of gneiss and quartz, prepared in nature's laboratory throughout millions of years, was now furnishing the rock which, beneath human manipulation, was flowering into the great cathedral!
From Flamsted quarries by Nelson, G. Patrick
