gloom
noun
total or partial darkness; dimness.
were glooming
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past progressiveof gloom.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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Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then one of the men took from the floor the sheet of manuscript and stepped to the window, for already the evening shadows were glooming the forest.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
The woods were glooming in the early dusk when he spoke again.
From D'Ri and I by Irving Bacheller
Fortunately Flavia, whose eyes were glooming on the cold hearth and the extinct ashes, fit image of her dead hopes, had her back to the casement.
From The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman
