redden
verb (used with object)
to make or cause to become red.
were reddening
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past progressiveof redden.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 hips were reddening on this rose, Those haws were hung with fire, That day we went this way that goes Up hills of bough and brier.
From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Julius Madison Cawein
He saw her cheeks were reddening, saw too that her face gave evidence of no particular bodily pain.
From Rim o' the World by Anton Otto Fischer
As I cautiously rode back, the sunset glories were reddening the mountain tops, and the park lay in violet gloom.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The leaves were reddening to their fall, 'Coo!' said the gray doves, 'coo!'
From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Frances Browne Arthur
How often I shall think I see the broad road, and the wide field, and the mountain-ash berries, that were reddening when we came; and the canary in the window!
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
