drench
verb (used with object)
to wet thoroughly; soak.
were drenching
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past progressiveof drench.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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“They were drenching me in last things,” as Jeff puts it.
From Slate ● May 2, 2016
The thick-falling drops were drenching the piazza, and its pavement was bubbling like a lake.
From The Eternal City by Sir Hall Caine
Out in the garden spectral figures were drenching the trees and flowers with water after the cruel heat of the day, and the place was full of the scent of wet earth.
From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley
It was as though the flood of moonshine were drenching the sacred sky also with a calm, unrippled sea, but a sea of light.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
In the meantime an emergency fire corps, composed of men employed on the grounds, had attached a line of hose to a hydrant and were drenching the flames.
From The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Margaret Burnham
