silver
noun
a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Ag; 107.870; 47; 10.5 at 20°C.
was silvering
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past progressiveof silver.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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Monsieur de Soyecourt noted also that Helene's gold hair was silvering now, as though Time had tangled cobwebs through it, and that Gaston was profoundly unconscious of the fact.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Her eyes were widely set, and blue, and mother-sweet, and her hair was silvering with the caress of the years.
From The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers by Edna Kingsley Wallace
The sun was silvering the waves of the river when the boat was lifted from the ground, and the journey resumed.
From Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh
It was silvering the tops of the overhanging boughs, and was quiveringly mirrored on the light ripple.
From A Love Story by A Bushman
“What a lovely morning!” said Harry to Mavers, who was leaning over the bows, looking seaward and eastward where the sun was silvering a broad belt of long rippling wavelets.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables
