thaw
verb (used without object)
to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
were thawing
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past progressiveof thaw.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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Chung’s father founded Sinokor as a joint venture with Chinese interests in 1989, when Korean-Chinese relations were thawing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
More than half a century of Cold War hostilities were thawing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
By 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, coffee was bubbling in an urn, and more than a dozen coyotes were thawing on a gray tarp.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2022
Since Morey’s tweet, there have been a few signs that tensions between the N.B.A. and the Chinese government were thawing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
With the melting of the last of the twilight there grew a kind of expectancy and tension, as though it were thawing snow about to slide from a sloping roof.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
