embroider
verb (used with object)
to decorate with ornamental needlework.
were embroidering
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past progressiveof embroider.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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Then they try to follow that sequence by hand — painstakingly mixing, filtering and distilling, stitching together molecules as if they were embroidering quilts.
From Nature ● Aug. 5, 2014
I looked quickly at the borders the other women were embroidering.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
Anne and Leila Mercer were embroidering, and Betty and I sat idle, our hands in our laps.
From When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart
They were embroidering fine garments of silk so soft that it could be drawn through a ring.
From Virgilia or, out of the Lion's Mouth by Felicia Buttz Clark
The two women on the other side of the brown table laden with white linen unfolded, were embroidering with initials the towels which were going into the Bastian linen press.
From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Ren? Bazin
