marvel
noun
something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy.
was marvelling
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past progressiveof marvel.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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Only the other week, she was marvelling to her mother about how her dad had allowed it.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2016
It was only once it arrived and I was marvelling at my purchase that I noticed it was printed on Epson glossy inkjet paper.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2014
I was marvelling if their friendship would be allowed to subsist at home, even when they, poor fellows, were lying side by side in their French grave.’
From The Caged Lion by Charlotte Mary Yonge
He was marvelling at her depth of understanding, he was marvelling at her simplicity of expression.
From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum
And now, when their eyes clung together as their hands were already clinging, each was marvelling that the other could forgive and love one who had erred so.
From The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory
