were eddying
- past progressive of eddy.
Example Sentences
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What object attracted her eye, some yards lower down the current of the brook, round which the muddy waves were eddying and rolling?
From The Crown of Success by A. L. O. E.
The waves were eddying like a whirlpool around the submerged vessel, and numbers of enormous airbubbles were rising to the surface of the water.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules
The buffaloes had become completely demoralized, and were eddying about in a crowded and confused mass, hooking and climbing upon each other.
From Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography by Johnson, Clark, M.D.
A dreary ride lay before us, for already the afternoon drew toward its close, and the light drifts were eddying under a bitter wind.
From Lorimer of the Northwest by Dewey, Alfred James
On the main thoroughfare flags were flying, and the streams of strangers that had been flowing into town were eddying at the street corners.
From The Court of Boyville by Lowell, Orson
