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
In the heel of the afternoon the level rays of the sun were gilding parti-colored minarets of mosque and palaces with barbaric splendor.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
I arrived at its head just as the last rays of the setting sun were gilding the tops of the mountains all around.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
The first rays of the sun were gilding the church-spires.
From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Charles Carleton Coffin
