coarsen
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become coarse.
were coarsening
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past progressiveof coarsen.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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By 1890, deeply felt pieties were coarsening into nationalism, while, on the physical plane, the image of the undefiled wilderness was eroded every day by westward expansion.
From Time Magazine Archive
