were dissolving
- past progressive of dissolve.
Example Sentences
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But you draw closer and those forms seem to flow like melting wax, as if the universe itself were dissolving before your eyes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
At least for a few hours, the bewildering notion that the United States and China were dissolving ties could be forgotten.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2019
“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
It was raining so hard the farms and fields outside were dissolving in whites.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
