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
The pearls were entrancing; but somehow she did not seem to think she cared to look at them any more—just now.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
