was glazing
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past progressiveof glaze.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
glazeverb (used with object)to furnish or fill with glass.
Example Sentences
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Her mother was glazing a ham in the oven on Christmas Eve in Kansas City when the ham suddenly flamed up, catching her mother's dress on fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He felt that his eye was glazing, his senses slipping from him, his grasp upon the reins relaxing.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Its pond of still water was glazing over with clear ice.
From A Mountain Boyhood by Enos B. (Enos Benjamin) Comstock
His vision was glazing; the muscles of his face were quietly settling to the repose that death only can command.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
Her eye was glazing; her chest heaving; her flank quivering; her crest again fallen.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth