melt
verb (used without object)
to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
were melting
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past progressiveof melt.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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Ludovic Ravanel of France's national scientific research centre CNRS, said high temperatures were melting "invisible" ice in cracks, which had held rocks together, leading to them falling.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
I tried to coax the twins outside to warm up in the hot tub, but they were melting down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
The idea was to see if the bumps got smaller, which would imply the shelves were thinning - that they were melting; that their braking force was getting weaker.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024
"It's hard to know what the climate was like on Mars — was it warm, was rainfall flowing across the surface, or was it just glaciers that were melting?"
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023
The great buildings of central Mishnory, government offices, schools, Yomesh temples, were so blurred by rain in the liquid glare of the high streetlights that they looked as if they were melting.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
