branch
noun
a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
were branching
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past progressiveof branch.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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Its new antlers were branching towards their yearly strength, and the triple-pointed crowns rose proudly from the beam that was their last perfection.
From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon
On every side were branching clusters of ice in the form of club-mosses, with here and there varicose veins of clear ice, and pinnacles of the prismatic structure, with limpid crockets and finials.
From Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
Clorinda went home and upstairs to her little room under the eaves, where the great bare willow boughs were branching athwart her windows.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Here were branching passages, great cavelike rooms—a world within a world, in all truth.
From Two Thousand Miles Below by Charles Willard Diffin
The boy and the old man were for turning back before they lost themselves,—for at every turn there were branching ways.
From Unexplored! by Allen Chaffee
