intertwine
verb (used with or without object)
to twine together.
were intertwining
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past progressiveof intertwine.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 eye follows Kricke's lines as if they were intertwining jets of water, now fast, now slow, and changing with each new viewpoint, or starting place.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the depths of Gordon's soul there were intertwining contradictions— intricate recesses where egoism and renunciation melted into one another, where the flesh lost itself in the spirit, and the spirit in the flesh.
From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey
