rinse
verb (used with object)
to wash lightly, as by pouring water into or over or by dipping in water.
were rinsing
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past progressiveof rinse.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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They were rinsing out some woollen stuffs after dying them blue.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
The soldiers had built fires and were rinsing out their clothes, when an order came to "fall in ranks at once."
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
Two or three women were rinsing their linen.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
Others, also overcome by the heat and half naked, were rinsing clothes in the Terek, plaiting a fishing line, or humming tunes as they lay on the hot sand of the river bank.
From The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Count
They dipped their fingers in a bowl of water, and were rinsing them, when a noise arrested their attention.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
