singe
verb (used with object)
to burn superficially or slightly; scorch.
was singeing
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past progressiveof singe.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 he crouched there his beard was singeing and his face scorched, but his back seemed as if it was cased in ice.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
He had finished this process, and, suspending it by one wing in an attitude of patient suffering, was singeing it with a blazing paper, when Melissa appeared.
From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham
She had come out with me in all her grandeur; and now, while we stood enchanted before the Albino, her fine silk cloak was singeing at a little iron stove that stood behind the door.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
The red-hot gun-barrel had fallen on the floor and was singeing the carpet.
From Life's Handicap by Rudyard Kipling
Another girl was sitting down, plucking poultry, and a third was singeing it over a blazing straw-fire.
From Mogens and Other Stories by Anna Grabow
