gild
verb (used with object)
to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.
were gilding
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past progressiveof gild.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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Around the time when those Medici were gilding everything in sight, there was the Great Moral Accountant in the sky.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2016
And he began writing again...and crossing out words...and writing more, while outside the sun sank lower and lower until its rays were gilding the hilltops.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
As we passed the City the last rays of the sun were gilding the cross upon the summit of St. Paul's.
From The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
As the last rays of the setting sun were gilding the palm tops Roger pushed aside a curtain of moon vine and looked out upon Garman's house and the little lake beyond.
From The Plunderer by Henry Oyen
Already the sun had dipped out of sight behind the western ridges; his last beams were gilding the blue-white pinnacles a hundred miles to the east.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
