fulminate
verb (used without object)
to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
was fulminating
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past progressiveof fulminate.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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He was fulminating happily about the intrinsic rights of English men and women, prevented from free access to the other nearby magnificent place of worship, Stonehenge.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2015
Japan was fulminating against the U. S. in its role of watchdog.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dirksen was fulminating against an amendment to the proposed ethics code by Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark and New Jersey's Clifford Case, who wished to stiffen the relatively flaccid measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the very moment that Gaubertin was fulminating this sentence of excommunication, the worthy Sarcus was presenting his son-in-law Sibilet to the Comte de Montcornet.
From Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac
To read Ruskin you would think he was fulminating urbi et orbi with the Summa or Cur Deus homo at his fingers' ends.
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett
