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
I was again on the banks of this beautiful river—at no place more beautiful than at Entraygues—when the rising sun was gilding only the topmost vines of the high western hill that shadows it.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
A bright winter sun was gilding the tall towers of the Abbey with golden light, and the mullioned windows were blazing over the surrounding buildings like flashes of fire.
From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce
We crossed the Tiber on a bridge built by Augustus Cæsar, and reached Borghetto as the sun was gilding with its last rays the ruined citadel above.
From Views a-foot by Bayard Taylor
