clot
noun
a mass or lump.
were clotting
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past progressiveof clot.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 cats rescued from the wildfire didn’t have those kinds of injuries, but their platelets were clotting anyway in the following days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Complexes of large, Y-shaped antibodies were clotting your blood vessels, causing your organs to shut down one by one.”
From Time ● Nov. 1, 2011
Pritchett Random House; 179 pages; $8.95 Hemingway wrote his stories as if he were clotting curds, squeezing the runny adjectives and opaque sentiments from his prose until action became an essence of feeling and moral.
From Time Magazine Archive
