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
“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
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
As a baby, Todd was fed only fresh vegetables, fruits, and raw milk; when he was teething, he was given frozen kidneys to gnaw.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2012
She was teething at the time, which was doubtless one cause of her illness,—to which however, as I suppose, other causes may have been added.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
