sweeten
verb (used with object)
to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
was sweetening
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past progressiveof sweeten.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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Nunavut Iron Ore said early in the day that it was sweetening its offer, adding one exchange right per common share to a bid worth C$1.45 a share in cash for 60 percent of Baffinland.
From Reuters ● Jan. 11, 2011
On one side it was bordered by a thickly-growing orange grove, whose delicate perfume was sweetening the still languid air.
From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
And then the simple way was celebrated by causation and the charge was sweetening, that is to say there was a round mass.
From Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein
At this moment Charlie was sweetening his coffee.
From Eugenie Grandet by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
