abound
verb (used without object)
to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers.
were abounding
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past progressiveof abound.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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The pastoral labors of these ministers were abounding.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
The Thessalonian brethren were abounding in faith and love and patience of hope in Jesus; however Paul tells them that God wills their sanctification.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
Her greetings were abounding in delicately-expressed love; her study of his tastes unwearying, in the arrangement of her dress, her time, her very thoughts.
From Doom of the Griffiths by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Here already then were abounding results; he had on the spot and without the least trouble of intention taught Strether that even in so small a thing as that there were different ways.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
The next moments were abounding with amazing incident.
From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum
