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
This was the web, upon which a chosen handful of more accomplished birds were embroidering and cross-embroidering and inter-embroidering their bold, clear arabesques of song.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
Sahwah was tatting, Gladys and Migwan were embroidering, and Miss Kent, familiarly known as "Nyoda," the Guardian of the Winnebago group, was "mending her hole-proof hose," as she laughingly expressed it.
From The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
