indite
verb (used with object)
to compose or write, as a poem.
were inditing
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past progressiveof indite.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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That royal lady spread the vellum on her knee, took the pen and affixed her signature as coolly as if she were inditing a sonnet in an album.
From The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming
There was Governor Burnett, looking as if he had just received an undutiful communication from the House of Representatives, and were inditing a most sharp response.
From The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
There was Governor Burnett, looking as if he had just received an undutiful communication from the House of Representatives and were inditing a most sharp response.
From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
There was Governor Burnet, looking as if he had just received an undutiful communication from the House of Representatives, and were inditing a most sharp response.
From International Short Stories American by Various
Young bards were inditing odes to melancholy, and everybody was chanting in chorus, if not the words, at least the sentiment of, "how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong."
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
