nourish
verb (used with object)
to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
were nourishing
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past progressiveof nourish.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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But a soaring energy slowly built, as if Ms. Green were nourishing the dancers around her.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
Various printing &; publishing "unions" were nourishing through out the Midwest when in 1878 a shrewd Vermonter named George A. Joslyn arrived in Omaha to establish a branch of Iowa Printing Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew and could picture the very oaks and pines that had nourished the pigs and the mushrooms that were nourishing us.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
They needed to know which foods were nourishing, which made you sick, and how to use others as cures.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
They were very tiny but he knew they were nourishing and they tasted good.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
