quell
verb (used with object)
to suppress; put an end to; extinguish.
were quelling
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past progressiveof quell.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 idea that they were quelling cytokine storms became widely accepted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2020
They were quelling the angry heat of her early set with a liberating, celebratory romp in front of 60,000 witnesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2016
They were quelling the mutiny which Protestantism had raised, and arresting the progress of the Reformation which, like Saturn, devours its own children.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
The first turning on the right, the second on the left brought her unmolested—for the enemy were quelling the last resistance in the Square—to the front of the House on the Wall.
From In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman
