glue
noun
a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
were gluing
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past progressiveof glue.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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The craft activity this day involved Popsicle sticks, which the girls were gluing together to make picture frames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
“You know one of the reasons I’m very successful? Because I’m supersensitive. Very, very sensitive,” he says, fingering the corned beef as if he were gluing together one of those model planes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2018
In California, we walked underneath the next shuttle, Challenger, where Rockwell workers were gluing the fragile heat-resistant tiles to its body.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2011
Last week workmen were gluing the 20 canvases to the walls of the Waldorf-Astoria's swankiest dining room, the Sert Room which looks out on 50th Street and Park Avenue.
From Time Magazine Archive
When all the other youngsters for miles around were gluing their faces to the iron fence watching the baseball games, Patsy's allegiance never faltered.
From The New Boy at Hilltop by Ralph Henry Barbour
