entrance
noun
an act of entering, as into a place or upon new duties.
were entrancing
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past progressiveof entrance.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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Still the sounds were entrancing and the giant puppet impressive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
The dexterity of her body and the devious inventiveness of her mind were entrancing: “I have very thin elbows, they are painful,” she said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Some of them were entrancing even on a screen, like Mihhail Plutahhin’s hypnotic “The Observers,” which consisted of handlers wordlessly moving objects rescued from forced-labor camps this way and that on a table.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
The Beatles were on the launch pad, and their curious accents were entrancing the South.
From Newsweek
She had been the one woman whose faults were entrancing, whose genuine temperament would have atoned for as many more.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
