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
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
The young man did not like this tone of anticipated certainty with regard to what he was pluming himself on as a noble action.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
From his addresses and his prayers, so redolent of the spirit of heaven, I might have known that he was pluming his wings for his upward flight.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
And now just as he was pluming himself on success, in crept Doubt and Distrust with their alarming suggestions, and he was unable to cast them out.
From All's for the Best by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
