teethe
verb (used without object)
was teething
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past progressiveof teethe.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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Maven was only ten months old at the time of the accident; Megan had kept her home because she was teething.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
Had I not decided that my daughter was teething a few months back, I wouldn’t have coddled her every time she woke up at night, and she might not have continued the habit.
From Slate ● May 4, 2015
I made this mistake last week: My now-9-month-old daughter was extremely fussy, and I assumed she was teething.
From Slate ● May 4, 2015
“Despite hundreds of thousands of data points,” explains study co-author Michael Macknin, a Cleveland Clinic pediatrician, “we could not determine when a child was teething before a tooth appeared.”
From Slate ● May 4, 2015
Indeed, the story is very old, and old it was when Methuselah was teething.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
