were fermenting
- past progressive of ferment.
Example Sentences
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People were fermenting grapes and storing wine in massive jugs as long ago as 6000 B.C., according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2017
Those were fermenting discourses that young Samuel Clemens listened to that winter in Macfarlane's room, and they did not fail to influence his later thought.
From The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Paine, Albert Bigelow
In some ways it was a pity that he did not come to closer quarters with the rougher forces that were fermenting in the industrial districts.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry
My brain had always seemed to me a vat in which a thousand incoherent ideas were fermenting, all contradicting one another and mutually destructive. . . .
From The Three Eyes by Leblanc, Maurice
They were fermenting in men's minds, and it needed only just such social and political stresses as the coming of the atomic mechanisms brought about, to thrust them forward abruptly into crude and startling realisation.
From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
