quench
verb (used with object)
to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
were quenching
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past progressiveof quench.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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Not because people were quenching their thirst on water.
From Time Magazine Archive
Often the four boys saw the majestic form of a lion or the lumbering shape of an elephant as these animals were quenching their thirst at some open spot along a stream.
From Around the World in Ten Days by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
In proportion as they became green under the water, which fell in a thin shower, it seemed to him as if he were quenching his own thirst and reviving along with them.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
A herd of a dozen antelopes were quenching their thirst in the bed of a torrent where some pools of water had lodged.
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
They saw grass and willows, among whose leaves gurgled the crystal waters of a prairie spring; and in a few seconds’ time, both horses and riders were quenching their thirst in its cool current.
From The Boy Hunters by Unknown
