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
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Inwardly the new ideas and aspirations were fermenting from Piedmont to Calabria.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Bigot led Cadet to the window, and poured in his ear the burning passions which were fermenting in his own breast.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
At the same time there were fermenting among the intelligent and educated youth of the city the new ideas of the North American and French revolutions—liberty, the rights of man, representative government, and popular sovereignty.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
