suffuse
verb (used with object)
to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
was suffusing
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past progressiveof suffuse.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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A glow was suffusing the far sky, growing brighter and brighter.
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Bertram Mitford
An orangish glow was suffusing the alien ship.
From Decision by H. R. Smith
This frank acknowledgment suddenly turned the sorrow that was suffusing so many eyes into a roar of laughter, in which even the weeping Doctor could not but unite.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie
In Fifth Avenue the electric lights sparkled like frost on the pavement, while beyond the roofs of the houses the first melancholy glow of a winter's sunrise was suffusing the sky with red.
From Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
He could not see her kindling eyes, her parted lips, the color which was suffusing forehead and cheeks, and he rather expected to hear subdued sobbing.
From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy
