blush
verb (used without object)
to redden, as from self-consciousness, embarrassment, or shame.
were blushing
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past progressiveof blush.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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What arrived in a dainty glass bowl were blushing petals of flesh, anointed with rhubarb and shiso and showered in chive blossoms, little purple winks.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2015
I’d never seen marble like that outside of the Metropolitan Museum — marble that changed color with the time of day, almost as if it were blushing.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2012
Already in this southern land they were blushing red at their fingertips, feeling the approach of spring.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
The sun was red, as if it were blushing, and it made his skin look radiant.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It was a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women's faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
