plume
noun
a feather.
was pluming
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past progressiveof plume.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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As we’re now seeing again in other places, the skyline was pluming with smoke, and the National Guard drove in.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2020
And it was borne in upon Netty that Uncle Joseph had received some order; that he was pluming his ragged old wings for flight.
From The Vultures by Henry Seton Merriman
She was pluming herself before the glass when Clorinda started up.
From A Noble Woman by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Do you suppose that Titian, when he painted a landscape, was pluming himself on being thought the finest colourist in the world, or making himself so by looking at nature?
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Alfred Rayney Waller
It happened that Hadrian at the time was pluming himself upon some such drawing.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Herbert Baldwin Foster
