were sprouting
-poussais
Past progressive conjugation of sprout. There are other translations for this conjugation.

sprout

Green leaves were sprouting on the grapevines in the fields—another encouraging sign of recovery.
Des feuilles vertes poussaient sur les vignes dans les champs - un autre signe encourageant de redressement.
Almost at once plastic packaging applications were sprouting up everywhere in the early 1970s.
Presque tout à la fois, les applications d’emballages en plastique se sont multipliées au début des années 70.
This working-class neighborhood with the atmosphere of a port city stretched to Avenida del Paralelo, where new cabarets and concert halls were sprouting up, infusing Barcelona with a Parisian flavor through the 1950s.
Ce quartier ouvrier, avec son ambiance portuaire, s’achevait à l’avenue Paralelo, là où commençaient les cabarets et les cafés-concerts, qui donnaient à la Barcelone des années 50, un certain air parisien.
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