were mushrooming
- past progressive of mushroom.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, new LNG terminals were mushrooming on the Gulf Coast, and Qatar was on track to expand its export capacity more than 40% starting around midyear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
The surface parking lots that were mushrooming when Ruscha photographed them, for instance, colonizing bigger and bigger swaths of the city, are beginning to disappear, especially in parts of the city like downtown and Koreatown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2016
San Francisco-esque cafes and restaurants were mushrooming, lamented Koester.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2016
They were seeing the growth of these fraud vehicles that were mushrooming in their state, and the minute a state would pass a law, you can see that these operators were moving across state lines.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2016
And big as these shops were, they were growing bigger, spreading over a third block, where two new structures were mushrooming to completion in some hasty cement process of a stability not over-reassuring.
From The Turmoil, a novel by Tarkington, Booth
