thicken
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become thick or thicker.
were thickening
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past progressiveof thicken.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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While the school groups slipped off for lunch, the throngs of grown-ups in the Flemish galleries were thickening.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2019
The trees were still too thin to overlap and form real walls, but they were thickening up as everyone stood and watched.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Dangers no doubt were thickening round his beloved Italy.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
He went out for long walks, hoping by exercise to throw off the gloom and horror which were thickening in his brain.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
Events were thickening there was no retreat for me, and I prepared for action.
From Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat
