crisp
adjective
(especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle.
were crisping
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past progressiveof crisp.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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But she talked and smiled; and no one could have told that her nerves were crisping as if at contact with a corpse.
From Beyond by John Galsworthy
Off to the left were softly swelling violet hills and beyond the sandshore, where little waves were crisping and silvering, there was a harbour where scores of slender masts were nodding against the gracious horizon.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
These were cleaned and placed in the large frying-pan where red-and-white streaked slices of bacon were crisping.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
