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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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
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
