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 hedgerows were thick with twining bryony and feathery traveller's joy; here and there the hips were reddening, and a ripe blackberry or two tempted them to linger upon the way.
From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Angela Brazil
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
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
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
