were spawning
- past progressive of spawn.
Example Sentences
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Bluefin, which were spawning in the area of the spill when it occurred, exhibited the full range of heart defects more often than the two other fish, the study said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2014
What he did not realize was the speed with which Hitlerite groups were spawning in southeastern Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The frogs were spawning in the pools; primroses were out by scores, and monthly roses blooming still; and Master shot a goat-sucker on the last day in November.
From Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
They escape all danger from drought, which in some rivers is almost as bad, there being now several mounds of dry gravel in my length of the Ribble which were spawning grounds last December.
From Essays in Natural History and Agriculture by Garnett, Thomas
Wäinämöinen, old and trusty, Gaz'd awhile upon the tankard; Lo! within it frogs were spawning, Worms about its sides were laying.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
