enliven
verb (used with object)
to make vigorous or active; invigorate.
were enlivening
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past progressiveof enliven.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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Droom was listening intently to the bursts of merriment which were enlivening the restaurant.
From Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon
The London season was now blooming in its full vigour, and the fashionable newspapers abounded with information regarding the grand banquets, routs, and balls which were enlivening the polite world.
From The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
The London season was now blooming in its full vigor, and the fashionable newspapers abounded with information regarding the grand banquets, routs, and balls, which were enlivening the polite world.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
