romance
noun
a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively).
were romancing
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past progressiveof romance.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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If she and Grandpa were romancing, it sure would put a crimp in things to have Jealousy Incarnate underfoot.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
On being informed that horses often worked well up to twenty years old and over in England, he let us infer, quite politely, that he thought we were romancing.
From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan
They had a mental deficiency of which they were unaware, and naturally enough supposed that those who affirmed they possessed it, were romancing.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton
I confess that when I first read the stories of that Christmas truce I thought that the reporters were romancing.
From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by William Edward Sellers
He let out a short, sibilant breath, looking at me with rapidly dilating eyes: they ran me all over, as if he wondered whether I were romancing.
From Ravensdene Court by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
