ferment
noun
any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
were fermenting
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past progressiveof ferment.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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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
These fears were fermenting in his brain; he must decide one way or other.
From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
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 Albert Bigelow Paine
I might have felt terribly cut up about it but on the South Rim we were fermenting with excitement getting ready to entertain important guests.
From I Married a Ranger by Dama Margaret Smith
At this juncture other schemes were fermenting in his brain; but the quadruplex engrossed him.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
