gild
verb (used with object)
to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.
was gilding
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past progressiveof gild.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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The novel begins with a bang: “In the large room of a house in a certain quiet city in Flanders, a man was gilding a devil.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2019
As the sun was gilding the distant spires of Dragonstone, Dany stumbled onto a low stone wall, overgrown and broken.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
They were very high up, the morning was clear, the sun was gilding the vapours which rose from the rifts and valleys, and the sea glittered gloriously.
From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by William Heysham Overend
The sun was gilding the roadside clods, and burnishing the greens of the treetops.
From The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck
The rising moon was gilding El Pico long ere its rays would illumine the lower land—that was all—yet he hailed the sight as a token of deliverance.
From The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy
