burgeon
verb (used without object)
to grow or develop quickly; flourish.
were burgeoning
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past progressiveof burgeon.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 company transported tens of thousands of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, mainly to work the sugar plantations in the Caribbean and cultivate the tobacco fields that were burgeoning in the new colony of Virginia.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Its stories tend to take place near nascent factories and in grimy cities, in Industrial Age England and the Wild West—in real-life settings where technologies were burgeoning.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2020
Three years ago, when the teams were burgeoning contenders, Washington swept Toronto in the first round.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2018
After college and through the 1980s, he sang in some of the prestigious early-music vocal groups that were burgeoning at the time, including the Sixteen, the Tallis Scholars and the Hilliard Ensemble.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2014
In front of our windows, which all the winter had looked upon a bleak and desolate garden, the trees were burgeoning, and the birds sang.
From My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
