dissolve
verb (used with object)
to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution.
were dissolving
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past progressiveof dissolve.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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What it says about America: Genres were dissolving and the internet was flattening the musical landscape into a shared monoculture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
Ethnic Armenian authorities in Karabakh said on Thursday they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades.
From Reuters ● Sep. 28, 2023
“I worried that as my visibility as Barack Obama’s wife rose, the other parts of me were dissolving from view,” she writes in her new memoir, Becoming.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018
The Yardbirds were dissolving and guitarist Jimmy Page recruited Reid for his new band.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016
The wind and rain were dissolving the road as if it were a sand castle.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
