were fertilizing
- past progressive of fertilize.
Example Sentences
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The next year, about 100 more women were fertilizing with it, then 1,000.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
The symbol of the sun god Shamash was a disc, from which flowed streams of water; his rays apparently were "fertilizing tears", like the rays of the Egyptian sun god Ra.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
