swoon
verb (used without object)
to faint; lose consciousness.
was swooning
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past progressiveof swoon.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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Last week, I was swooning over a Pinterest living room before I spotted the disclaimer: AI-modified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Look, I admire Elliot Page as much as the next LGBTQ+ person and was swooning just as hard over this incredible cover and the mystery around the hush-hush book with the super-private advanced copies.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
Reed, for his part, was swooning as he watched.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2022
He saw disco mostly from the sidelines, as a spectacle; I was swooning in the middle of the crowd, lost in music.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 9, 2016
His soul was swooning into some new world, fantastic, dim, uncertain as under sea, traversed by cloudy shapes and beings.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
